Movies: Merce Cunningham
- 1990
John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990)
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This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained i...
- 2023
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV (2023)
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The quixotic journey of Nam June Paik, one of the most famous Asian artists of the 20th century, who revolutionized the use of technology as an artistic canvas and prophesied both the fascist tendencies and intercultural understanding that would aris...
- 1985
All Star Video (1985)
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A compilation of avant-garde artwork and talent of the mid to late 20th century hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto....
- 2019
Cunningham (2019)
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The iconic Merce Cunningham and the last generation of his dance company is profiled in Alla Kovgan's 3D documentary, through recreations of his landmark works and archival footage of Cunningham, John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, and more....
- 1981
Channels/Inserts (1981)
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This work was a dance shot for film at the Cunningham studio. Staging for Channels/Inserts was divided among the main studio, the small studio and the office area. Cunningham employed the use of chance operations to decide the order in which each spa...
- 1979
Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective (1979)
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This film includes important examples of the Robert Rauschenberg's diverse and extraordinary accomplishments, tracing his development from his student years and his earliest experiments to a retrospective of his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Ne...
- 1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984)
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In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve p...
- 1966
John Cage (1966)
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Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966....
- 1944
Appalachian Spring (1944)
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A multi-character dance drama...
- 2001
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance (2001)
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A history of the work of Merce Cunningham....
- 1975
Westbeth (1975)
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“Westbeth” was Cunningham’s first video collaboration with Charles Atlas, and the first video project to be made at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio on the eleventh floor of Westbeth....
- 1992
Beach Birds for Camera (1992)
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Cunningham said of his choreography for "Beach Birds", “It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be exactly together. They can dance like a flock of birds, when they suddenly take off.” A work for eleven dancers, the...
- 1984
Coast Zone (1984)
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Coast Zone […] explores the use of deep-focus, contrasting background figures (often in motion) with those in the foreground (sometimes in extreme close-up). Shot in January 1983, the first screenings at Dean Junior College in Franklin, MA, 7 April 1...
- 2010
Ocean (2010)
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John Cage’s original concept of Ocean, in 1991, was for a dance to be performed in a circular space, with the audience surrounding the dancers, and the musicians (112 of them) surrounding the audience. The last performance was in the Rainbow Quarry i...
- 1980
Locale (1980)
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Locale was designed to explore the possibilities of moving cameras and moving dancers in a film. Filmed at the Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth, New York NY, Jan - Feb 1979. First public screening at City Center Theater, New York NY, 24 February 198...
- 1969
Exchange (1969)
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Atlas' 2013 film Exchange is based on the 1978 dance piece of the same name by legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham. Atlas created the newly completed film from never-before-seen footage that he shot in 1978 and that was only recently redi...
- 1962
Merce Cunningham (1962)
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The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg....
- 1964
Night Wandering (1964)
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Paradoxically described by Walter Sorell as "a tender lullaby of love" and by Richard Buckle as "cold and menacing, the courtship of the Macbeths," Night Wandering is a duet reminiscent of snowy landscapes. Cernovitch designed the original costumes: ...
- 2023
August Pace 1989-2019 (2023)
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Thirty years after the world premiere of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham's August Pace, the original cast members gather in a New York City studio for the first time to teach their roles to a younger generation. Their reunion is a grand expe...
- 1969
BIPED (1969)
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The décor for BIPED is an exploration into the possibilities of motion capture technology. The movements (but not the physical appearances) of the dancers were transposed into digital images. Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar collaborated with Merce Cun...