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  1. Two Lovers

    Date released
    14 Sep 1933
    Series name
    Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
    Issue no
    641
    NoS ID
    333280
    Story no
    2 / 4

    NoS Summary - Two monkeys cuddle each other in a zoo cage. British Pathe synopsis: "Few attachments in history are of so touching a character as that of Ellen and John." Interior of a zoo cage. Two young...

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  2. John Cage Talks of His Work and Aesthetic (1969)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 NTSC), £95.00

    Conversation between avant garde composer John Cage and Jack Kroll, senior arts editor at Newsweek magazine. Cage was a composer and a philosopher of aesthetics, whose revolutionary definitions of music...

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  3. Four American Composers: John Cage, Robert Ashley, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass (1984)

    aka: 4 American Composers

    Director
    Peter Greenaway
    Producer
    Revel Guest
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 220 minutes), £32.92

    A series of four programmes of performances by ‘avant-garde’ musicians from New York: John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass and Robert Ashley. The programmes are preceeded and followed by short...

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  4. Listen (2005)

    Subject
    Music; Psychology
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 140 minutes), 19.99

    In the spirit of John Cage’s historic and revolutionary composition 4’33’'--which challenges the boundaries of traditional music through four and a half minutes of intentional silence--Miroslav...

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  5. Poetry in Motion (1982)

    Director
    Ron Mann
    Subject
    Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 1 NTSC, 90 minutes), £17.86 (Amazon)

    An unprecedented anthology of twenty-four leading North American poets who sing, chant, anything but "read" their work. The result is a celebration of poetry’s ancient oral tradition and an energetic...

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  6. Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946 Video)

    Director
    Hans Richter
    Subject
    Art; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

    Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...

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  7. Maya Deren: Experimental Films

    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (Institutional use £60.00)

    MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943 music by Teiji Ito, 1959, b/w, 15’ With Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. Grand Prix International, avant-garde section, Cannes 1947. AT LAND 1944 silent, b/w, 16’ With Deren,...

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  8. Buckminster Fuller: Thinking out Loud (1996)

    Subject
    Engineering; Philosophy; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (NTSC, 94 minutes), $34.99

    A true Renaissance Man, Buckminster Fuller, best remembered as the architect and creator of the geodesic dome, made an equally dramatic mark as an engineer, inventor, poet, visionary, philosopher and...

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  9. Animation Classics (1993 Video)

    Director
    Cordell Barker; Richard Condie; Evelyn Lambart; Caroline Leaf; Eunice Macaulay; Norman McLaren; Ishu Patel; John Weldon
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 65 min., 2001 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    A compilation of seven short animated films from the National Film Board of Canada.

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