Philip Glass Movies

  • 1987
    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

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    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational...

    Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
  • 2013
    Re: Awakenings

    Re: Awakenings

    Re: Awakenings

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    Original Super 8 footage shot by Dr. Oliver Sacks of his patients at Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY, who were administered the drug L-Dopa in the...

    Re: Awakenings
  • 2005
    The Giant Buddhas

    The Giant Buddhas

    The Giant Buddhas

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    Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for...

    The Giant Buddhas
  • 1971
    Anxious Automation

    Anxious Automation

    Anxious Automation

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    Soundtrack by Philip Glass

    Anxious Automation
  • 1999
    Pointy Teeth for Pointy People

    Pointy Teeth for Pointy People

    Pointy Teeth for Pointy People

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    A cousin stays overnight at a couple's place as both of her parents are missing. The husband suspects that she is a vampire as he keeps seeing...

    Pointy Teeth for Pointy People
  • 1986
    A Perfect Couple

    A Perfect Couple

    A Perfect Couple

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    One night in Gotham one couple ends their relationship, then another, and another.

    A Perfect Couple
  • 2021
    War and the Weather

    War and the Weather

    War and the Weather

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    Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of...

    War and the Weather
  • 2017
    The Juniper Tree

    The Juniper Tree

    The Juniper Tree

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    This take on the famously dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale tells of a Wicked Stepmother who murders her stepson and serves him up in a stew to his...

    The Juniper Tree
  • 2022
    A Place Called Music

    A Place Called Music

    A Place Called Music

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    The musical journey between Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina and American composer Philip Glass.

    A Place Called Music
  • 1999
    The Eden Myth

    The Eden Myth

    The Eden Myth

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    Can you keep a family secret? Prepare to enter the dark and funny world of the Speck family. Ruled by gray-haired patriarch Vincent Speck, they...

    The Eden Myth
  • 1968
    Hands Scraping

    Hands Scraping

    Hands Scraping

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    In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their...

    Hands Scraping
  • 2023
    You, Me, and Movies

    You, Me, and Movies

    You, Me, and Movies

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    Filmmaker Nathan Kornick uses interviews with his friend, Chris Shields, and confessional footage to reflect on the power of movies to help us better...

    You, Me, and Movies
  • 2021
    In the Penal Colony

    In the Penal Colony

    In the Penal Colony

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    Based on a story by Franz Kafka, this Philip Glass opera is set at the turn of the 20th century on a remote island where a high-ranking visitor...

    In the Penal Colony
  • 2003
    Wildfire

    Wildfire

    Wildfire

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    Female dancers “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film...

    Wildfire
  • 1995
    Untitled: New Blue

    Untitled: New Blue

    Untitled: New Blue

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    A short film directed by Paul Schrader following the story of a painting from Schrader's collection.

    Untitled: New Blue
  • 2001
    In the Ocean

    In the Ocean

    In the Ocean

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    A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries.

    In the Ocean
  • 1970
    Isy Boukir

    Isy Boukir

    Isy Boukir

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    Nancy Graves statement, 1971: "Izy Boukir contains footage filmed in the Sahara during eighteen days. I wanted to extend sequences [from earlier...

    Isy Boukir
  • 2013
    Glass: The Perfect American

    Glass: The Perfect American

    Glass: The Perfect American

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    The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first...

    Glass: The Perfect American
  • 1986
    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

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    Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More...

    The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
  • 1983
    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha

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    This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a...

    Philip Glass: Satyagraha