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  1. 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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  2. Tropicalia (2013)

    Director
    Marcel Machado
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 87 minutes), £12.99

    Marcel Machado’s documentary charts the history of the 1960s Brazilian counter-cultural movement known as Tropicália, which expressed itself in theatre, film, art and poetry, but is perhaps best known...

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  3. Misinformation (2010)

    Subject
    Media studies; Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 101 minutes), £14.99

    MisinforMation is the result of the BFI asking mysterious music makers Mordant Music to re-score an array of public information films and documentary shorts produced by the Central Office of Information...

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  4. Colorfield Variations (2009)

    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 81 minutes), £15.99

    Curated by Richard Chartier, this magnificent audio-visual project draws on a formidable roster of artists operating in the field of experimental electronic music, featuring the likes of Steve Roden, Stephan...

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  5. Science is Fiction/ The Sounds of Science (2007)

    Director
    Jean Painlevé
    Subject
    Biology; Film studies; Music; Science
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 120 minutes), £24.99

    Before David Attenborough and Jacques Cousteau - there was Jean Painlevé, Poetic pioneer of science films, Painlevé explored a twilight realm of vampire bats, seahorses, octopi, and liquid crystals. In...

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  6. Gavin Bryars (1989 Film, Video)

    Director
    David Rowan
    Producer
    David Rowan
    Subject
    Music
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Illustrates the individual approach to composition by Gavin Bryars, a leading figure in the development of English experimental music, through varied musical extracts and his lively comments.

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  7. 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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