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Glass - A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts (2009)

Director

Scott Hicks

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 115 minutes), £8.00

In July 2005, Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Hicks followed Philip across three continents and...

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Einstein on the Beach: An Opera in Four Acts (2016)

Subject

Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 264 minutes), £29.99

Avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson. The plot revolves, loosely, around Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb. Originally premiered in 1976, this...

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Thin Blue Line, The (1988)

Director

Errol Morris

Producer

Mark Lipson

Subject

Film studies; Law

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 97 minutes), £15.99

While researching another project, filmmaker Errol Morris became fascinated by the case of Randall Dale Adams, a man on death row for the murder of a policeman in 1976. Convinced of his innocence, Morris...

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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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Koyaanisqatsi (1983 Video)

Director

Godfrey Reggio

Producer

Godfrey Reggio

Subject

Anthropology; Environmental science

Distribution

OUT of DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. VHS. col. 90 min.

A personal view of America, with a strongly environmental theme, set to music by Philip Glass. (The Hopi Indian title word means ‘unbalanced life’.)

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When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (2010)

Director

Dirk Simon

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

DVD (Region 2 PAL, 114 minutes), £19.99

Dirk Simon’s film about the history of the Tibetan people’s struggle for freedon begins in 1950: the Tibet was incorporated by the People’s Republic of China. In 1959, following the Tibetan Rebellion,...

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Future on Display, The (1990 Video)

Producer

Philip Ashby

Subject

Technology

Distribution

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min.

Examines technical choices for the makers of future tv systems working on wide screens (HDTV or high-definition television). The major materials issue is the production of satisfactory silicon layers on the...

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John Cage (1984)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Documentary on the avant-garde composer John Cage. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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Meredith Monk (1984)

Director

Peter Greenaway

Producer

Revel Guest

Subject

Music

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Discusses Meredith Monk’s achievements as singer, dancer, performance artist, composer and filmmaker. Includes a postcript by Peter Greenaway in which he discusses some of the issues raised.

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Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi (2014)

Subject

Development studies; Environmental science; Media studies; Music

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £29.99 (inclusive)

Two of the three films from the Qatsi trilogy. They are cinematic essays on the impact of technological progress on the earth and its peoples, set to scores by Philip Glass. The photographic effects,...

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