Philip Glass

biography: Philip Morris Glass is an American composer. He is one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century.  His music is also often controversially described as minimal music.

Saturday Night Live

overview: A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.

character: Self - Musical Guest

Tea with Tosh

overview: 'Tea with Tosh' was a cable public access TV chat show that aired from 1986-87. Hosted by Tosh Berman and featuring guests such as Philip Glass, Russ Tamblyn, Carole Caroompas, and Michael Silverblatt. All 20 episodes are available on Tosh Berman's YouTube channel.

original_name: Tea with Tosh

The Culture Show

overview: A weekly BBC Two magazine programme focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture and more.

original_name: The Culture Show

The Kennedy Center Honors

overview: The Kennedy Center Honors is an annual honor given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

original_name: The Kennedy Center Honors

Classic Albums

overview: A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.

original_name: Classic Albums

name: Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television

overview: In 1975, the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an opera (or piece of theater, depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven two-hour sections. Each episode is dedicated to investigations, interviews, and performances of one of his peers – David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley, respectively, with the final reserved for himself.

original_name: Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television

Tales from the Loop

job: Original Music Composer

overview: The story of the town and people who live above “The Loop,” a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things possible that were previously relegated only to science fiction.

department: Sound

original_name: Tales from the Loop

100 Foot Wave

overview: The decade-long odyssey of surfing pioneer Garrett McNamara, who, after visiting Nazaré, Portugal in hopes of conquering a 100-foot wave, pushed the sport to ever-greater heights and alongside locals helped transform the small fishing village into the world’s preeminent big-wave surfing destination.

original_name: 100 Foot Wave

The Himalayas

job: Music

overview: This is the story, in eight episodes, of the conquest of Mount Everest in the Himalayas and its impact on the world. We meet the climbers who reached the summit and those who perished attempting the ascent. We encounter the Sherpa people, an ethnic group originating from Tibet, explore high-altitude mountaineering techniques, and hear the stories of expedition leaders and team members throughout their journey, while cameras capture every danger on the icy peaks. Viewers will remember that Everest is a world of illusions, a world that can become hostile in an instant, swept by fierce winds and deadly ice slides. A more recent, political, ecological, and economic perspective focuses primarily on present-day Nepal, Tibet, and Bhutan and their economies, including the Tibetan carpet industry and the Chinese occupation.

original_name: The Himalayas

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Español

biography:
Philip Morris Glass es un compositor estadounidense de música minimalista. Asistió de joven a la escuela de música Juilliard. Es relativamente conocido, pese a la complejidad de sus propuestas musicales, desde la aparición de su ópera Einstein on the Beach.

Ha compuesto más de 20 óperas, largas y breves; nueve sinfonías; dos conciertos para piano y conciertos para violín, piano, timpani, saxofón y orquesta; ha puesto música a un viejo film como La bella y la bestia de Jean Cocteau. Trabaja habitualmente con el Philip Glass Ensemble. Ha colaborado con Paul Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Yo-Yo Ma, Doris Lessing y Robert Wilson.

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title: Patti Smith: Dream of Life

overview: An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

original_title: Patti Smith: Dream of Life

title: Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland

overview: Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had been on the cutting-edge of pop music throughout most of the 1960s and the '70s, first as half of the seminal folk-rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, and then as a well-received solo artist. But the rise of 1980s rock and new wave saw a decline in Simon's commercial success, and the singer responded by experimenting with different musical styles--most notably, world beat--that culminated in his adventurous 1986 masterpiece GRACELAND. The album's fusion of American folk-rock songwriting and buoyant South African rhythms not only broke new ground in pop music, but became Simon's biggest-selling solo record. This episode of the CLASSIC ALBUMS series examines the making of Simon's groundbreaking work through interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, music videos, and live performances of album tracks such as "Boy in the Bubble," "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes," "You Can Call Me Al," and "Under African Skies."

original_title: Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland

title: Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

overview: Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.

original_title: Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts

title: New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971

overview: With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ben Patterson, Wolf Rosenberg  In 1971 we produced, in association with West German Television, a documentation on New York’s musical avant-garde. It was broadcast only in Germany at the time. By 2010, after nearly 40 years, it seemed desirable to recycle the performances and interviews with the composers and to create a revealing look back to those years for English-speaking New Music fans. The film offers valuable insights into the nature and issues of advanced composition at the beginning of the 1970s.

original_title: New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971

title: Hands Scraping

overview: 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 bare hands, and carrying the gathered heap in their hands out of the picture.

original_title: Hands Scraping

title: A Brief History of Errol Morris

overview: This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema history. This comprehensive overview of Morris' career includes clips of all his important films as well as interviews with collaborators such as Werner Herzog and Phillip Glass.

original_title: A Brief History of Errol Morris

title: Four American Composers: Philip Glass

overview: A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip Glass that is a recording of a performance of the Phillip Glass Ensemble in 1983 with interviews that go in depth of his style and music theory of his signature minimal sound.

character: Himself

original_title: Four American Composers: Philip Glass

title: The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

overview: Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework. More than thirty artists participated in the program, which was produced for the Kitchen by Carlota Schoolman and directed by Tom Bowes.

original_title: The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

title: The Source

overview: Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs in 1997. Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their arrival into American consciousness, their travels, frequent parodies, Kerouac's death, and Ginsberg's politicization. Their movement connects with bebop, John Cage's music, abstract expressionism, and living theater. In recent interviews, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Kesey, Ferlinghetti, Mailer, Jerry Garcia, Tom Hayden, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, and others measure the Beats' meaning and impact.

original_title: The Source

title: Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

overview: The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert Wilson are examined in this film. It documents their collaboration on this tradition breaking opera.

character: composer (himself)

original_title: Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

title: What Difference Does It Make?

overview: A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

original_title: What Difference Does It Make?

title: The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter

overview: Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker.

original_title: The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter

title: Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious

overview: We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a unique artistic code. Why are people moved to tears when Robert “Bob” Wilson puts minimalistic petrol pumps into a production of Shakespeare’s sonnets? Why does merciless repetition change our understanding of something? Together with Tom Waits, Willem Dafoe or Marina Abramović we trace back our own experience of Bob’s art. Is it true what Philipp Glass the collaborator of the milestone piece “Einstein on the Beach” laughingly and with apparent pleasure exclaims “what does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything!”?

original_title: Robert Wilson – Die Schönheit des Geheimnisvollen

title: A Place Called Music

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

original_title: Un lugar llamado música

original_language: es

title: The Making of "Once Within a Time"

overview: A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time".

original_title: The Making of "Once Within a Time"

title: Richard Serra: Man of Steel

overview: Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work.  A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel sculptures that both terrify and mesmerise, Serra believes that each viewer creates the sculpture for themselves by being within it.  To this end, a Japanese family are reminded of the Temples of Kyoto, a Londoner finds sanctuary in the Serra near Liverpool Street station, and most movingly, a Holocaust survivor sees one piece as a wall separating the living from the dead.  Contributors include Chuck Close, Philip Glass and Glenn D Lowry, Director of MoMA.

original_title: Richard Serra: Man of Steel

title: The Truman Show

overview: In a picture-perfect seaside town, an insurance salesman begins to realize that his entire existence may be staged and observed by a vast unseen audience as part of a long-running real-time reality TV show.

character: Keyboard Artist

original_title: The Truman Show

title: Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

overview: In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater depending on the case) for television. The work is comprised of seven, two hours sections. Each  “episode” is dedicated to investigations, interviews, and performances of his one of his peers – David Behrman, Philip Glass, Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, and Terry Riley respectively, with the final reserved for himself.

original_title: Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

title: The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch

overview: A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch.

character: Self - Interviewee

original_title: The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch

title: 365 Day Project

overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.

original_title: 365 Day Project

title: Philip Glass: Looking Glass

overview: This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New York to London and from Paris to Boston. He speaks about his beginnings, his moving to Paris for two years of intensive study with Nadia Boulanger, his meeting with Indian musician Ravi Shankar and director Robert Wilson, who had a deep influence on his career. The film also shows him at work on the last details of his opera The Sound of a Voice, directed by Robert Woodruff and conducted by Alan Johnson.  Éric Darmon's camera, with its poetic shots and original framings, takes us for a musical journey into seven months of the life of the composer who, rising from the underground scene of the seventies, brought on a revolution in modern theater.

original_title: Philip Glass: Looking Glass

title: Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

overview: Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell. Before his death in 1992, Arthur prolifically created music that spanned both pop and the transcendent possibilities of abstract art. Now, over fifteen years since his passing, Arthur's work is finally finding its audience. Wolf incorporates rare archival footage and commentary from Arthur's family, friends, and closest collaborators to tell this poignant and important story.

original_title: Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

title: What Maisie Knew

overview: The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a kind of narrative. - BM

original_title: What Maisie Knew

title: Impact of Progress

overview: Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002).

title: Essence of Life

overview: Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi."

title: Perfect Moment

overview: In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments of their lives. Some, such as Norman Lear and Indian activist Russell Means, talk about religion, while composer Philip Glass and film-producer Irwin Winkler discuss the births of their children. Pastor Jess Moody recalls WW II deaths of his friends, and artist Janice Blake remembers being raped.

title: In the Ocean

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

title: Bye Bye Kipling

overview: This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with Keith Haring and architect Arata Isozaki, and performances and works by Philip Glass and the Kodo Drummers, Charlotte Moorman, Nam June Paik, and Lou Reed. In an extraordinary section, a performance in Japan of classical Western music is accompanied by a group of Kabuki dancers.

title: Trophy

overview: This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex consequences of treating animals as commodities.

title: Music

overview: The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and producers across genres.

title: Kiki and Herb Reloaded

overview: The outrageous drag-cabaret duo Kiki and Herb share their past, present and future as they tour the UK. A mixture of live performance and celebrity interviews (featuring Rufus Wainwright and the Scissor Sisters) that reflect on Kiki and Herb's musical influences, fans, politics and family.

title: The Last Dalai Lama?

overview: In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portrait of the 14th Dalai Lama. His new film takes a fresh look at what is important for His Holiness, who is now in his 80s: the historic confrontation between Tibet and China; his influence in political, spiritual and educational spheres; his work with neuroscientists; and his personal feelings on aging, dying and whether he will be the last Dalai Lama. His impact on the West has grown over the 25 years since the earlier film, and we see some of his influence at work in classes and scientific studies. Artfully weaving interviews and accounts from family, friends and people he inspired, this film vibrantly conveys the Dalai Lama’s humor, wisdom and compassion

title: The Harry Smith Project Live

overview: Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential Anthology of American Folk Music. Instrumental in inspiring the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology's continuing impact on modern music is incalculable. Drawing on this legacy, these landmark shows brought together a remarkable roster of artists performing their own unique interpretations of these classic songs.

title: A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera

overview: This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the Württemberg State Theater, Stuttgart, and the Houston Grand Opera.

original_title: A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera

title: Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

overview: Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Filmmaker Howard Brookner follows the avant-garde theatre director as he confronts a hectic work schedule, funding difficulties and relentless international travel in attempt to complete his preparations.  The film examines Wilson’s unique theatrical style during The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, which involves the continual creation of evocative stage sets, owing to a unique juxtaposition of movement, sound, text and image. Known for his precise, painterly images Wilson’s work derives more from visual art than the orthodox literary traditions of theatre. As a result, Wilson often challenges actors to perform in a boldly minimalist style, as well as collaborating with non-actors, such as young autistic poet Christopher Knowles in Einstein on the Beach.

title: Lucinda Childs' Dance

overview: A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs.  For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip Glass in film/decor of Sol Lewitt, Lucinda received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This masterpiece is the leitmotiv in this documentary. We see Lucinda in NY where she re-stages Dance during the Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2010. We also follow her in Arnhem during the preparations of the piece at Introdans, where it will premiere as a part of ”Sterren en Strepen” (Stars and Stripes). For this show Introdans united the king and queen of modern dance, Hans van Manen and Lucinda Childs, in order to show their pieces together. We will also be speaking to prominent figures from the dance scene about her influence on Dutch modern dance.

title: Paul Simon: Under African Skies

overview: Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.  On the 25th anniversary of Paul Simon's GRACELAND, acclaimed documentary filmmaker Joe Berlinger offers a glimpse at the controversy surrounding the decision to record the album in South Africa despite a UN boycott of the nation, which was aimed at ending apartheid. In the run-up to an eagerly anticipated reunion concert, Simon, Quincy Jones, Peter Gabriel, David Byrne, Harry Belafonte, Paul McCartney and others reflect on the decision to record with local artists in South Africa, and the cultural impact of the album that delivered such hits as "I Know What I Know" and "You Can Call Me Al."

title: Making Mishima

overview: In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and composer Philip Glass discuss the conception of Paul Schrader's film, the image of Mishima that they had prior to committing to the project, the manner in which some of his ideas resonated with them, the unusual portrait of Mishima that the film offers, its form and visual style, etc.

title: War and the Weather

overview: Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of "atmospheric rivers," or streams of water vapor in the sky. Just like rivers that move water around on the land, atmospheric rivers—never visible to the naked eye—were a vital force in shaping the colonization of the American West. Today, the evolving scientific and cultural understandings of atmospheric rivers exemplify the complexity and importance of the stories we tell ourselves about science, climate, and the natural world. This film was created at the Days and Nights Festival held at the Philip Glass Center for the Arts, Science, and the Environment.

title: The Viking of Sixth Avenue

overview: A documentary about the colorful life, times and music of a true original, Louis “Moondog” Hardin, an eccentric blind musician and composer who had far-reaching artistic influence in spite of a deliberate decision to live on the streets of New York City.  With a wealth of never before seen archival film, home movies and rare audio recordings, the film is told largely from Moondog’s perspective and features interviews with Moondog’s friends, family, collaborators and musicians who cite him as an influence, including Jarvis Cocker, John Zorn, Chris Stein and Debbie Harry, Damon Albarn, Philip Glass, and many more.

title: Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress

title: John Cage: Man and Myth

overview: An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Avante-Garde artists as well as those who play his music.

title: Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

overview: Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

original_title: Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music

title: Nova '78

overview: Resurrected through UK-led archival restoration NOVA 78' shows never-before-seen footage of the legendary Nova Convention where William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Zappa, Ginsberg and more collided in an explosion of ideas, art and rebellion.

title: Refuge

title: Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

overview: This was filmed at Anthology Film Archives on May 31, 2000.

original_title: Phil Glass Plays for Ralph Steiner's Mechanical Principles

title: Notes on a Scandal

overview: A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.

title: The Illusionist

overview: With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

title: The Hours

overview: The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

title: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

overview: Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.

title: Pointy Teeth for Pointy People

overview: 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 corpses and her biting into them in his nightmares. Suddenly he becomes a vampire and hell breaks loose and must find a way to put an end to this.

title: Hamburger Hill

overview: The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

title: No Reservations

overview: Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.

title: Koyaanisqatsi

overview: Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by the juxtaposition of images and the exceptional music by Philip Glass.

title: Taking Lives

overview: Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.

title: Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2

overview: Jerome Robbins considered the Paris Opera Ballet as his second home after the New York City Ballet. This production in his honour brings together works displaying the infinite diversity of his sources of inspiration and his genius on stage. Be it in the energy of the large-scale Glass Pieces or the intimate sweetness of Afternoon of a Faun and A Suite of Dances, there emerges that rare capacity to make bodies follow the flow in a living comprehension of music. As the celebrated ballet Fancy Free, a veritable theatrical portrait of an era, enters the repertoire, Robbins reveals another facet of his talent.

title: Powaqqatsi

overview: An exploration of technologically developing nations and the effect the transition to Western-style modernization has had on them.

title: In the Upper Room

overview: In the Upper Room is a dance/theater collaboration between choreographer Twyla Tharp and composer Philip Glass.  In the Upper Room from 1986, with music by Phillip Glass, choreography by Twyla Tharp. It's really impossible to convey in words just how brilliant this 40 minute piece is.

title: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

overview: A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of November 25th, 1970.

title: The Fog of War

overview: Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

title: Mr. Nice

overview: Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.

title: Philip Glass: Akhnaten

overview: Akhnaten is set in Ancient Egypt, and based on the accession to the throne of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV – thought to have been around 1351BC – on his religious convictions, and the consequences of his actions. Presented as a combination of song, dance and music, the opera has a libretto by Philip Glass, Shalom Goldmann, Robert Israël and Richard Ridell, with the text drawing on ancient hymns, prayers and inscriptions, sung in their original Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian form.  Produced by the Opéra de Nice Côte d’Azur as part of the Festival MANCA.

title: Essence of Life

title: Anima Mundi

overview: Image and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to celebrate the World Wildlife Fund's Biological Diversity Campaign. The film combines images of nature with pulsing rhythms in a Microcosmos (1996) meets Koyaanisqatsi (1983) spectacle.

title: Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama

overview: A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959.

original_title: Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama

title: They Were There

overview: What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and society over the last 100 years gives us all a common framework. "They Were There" is told by first-hand witnesses—current and retired employees and clients—who were there when IBM helped to change the way world works.

title: Evidence

overview: A haunting look at children watching television.

title: The Eden Myth

overview: 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 appear to be your average upper-class American family as they gather together for the weekend. Siblings snipe at each other behind their backs, and the parents worry about the future. Signs that all is not well within the Specks' world begin when Vincent announces the arranged marriage of his son Aldo to a woman he has never met. They are set to marry the next day. Soon after the wedding, the eldest son, Edward, is found dead in his bedroom. What's going on here?

title: Rebirth

overview: Filmed over the ensuing years after the attack on New York's World Trade Center, this documentary takes a look a the physical and emotional healing process involved in the aftermath of such a tragedy.

title: You, Me, and Movies

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

title: Geometry of Circles

overview: A short animated film consisting of the movement of six circles (each with a different colour of the rainbow) that are formed by and split up into various geometric patterns.

title: Trans-Action

overview: Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and the third transgender member of government in world history, was born in the male body and decided to finally begin her life as a woman only in her 50s. The film documents the most important chapters in this intimate process of transformation. We observe Anna in her daily activities in Warsaw, we witness her intimate conversations with her son and closest friends.

title: Visitors

overview: From the director of KOYAANISQATSI, an astonishing film that documents the drama of how we both live and witness what we experience. Shot in rich black and white Godfrey Reggio's latest film finds the full spectrum of emotion in human faces, gorgeous landscapes and even the behavior of an especially expressive gorilla.

title: War and the Weather

title: The Source

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

overview: This luminous, visionary opera tells the story of how Mahatma Gandhi developed the philosophy of satyagraha, nonviolent active resistance, as a political revolutionary tool to fight oppression, connecting his lifework to three historical figures who advanced his philosophy: the celebrated Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, the great Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore and the heroic American civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The libretto is comprised of passages from “The Bhagavad-Gita,” India’s greatest philosophical epic, and perfectly complements Glass’ ravishing score, mysteriously transporting the audience with a serene power and an all-encompassing sense of peace.

title: Alice

overview: Written in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was a popular success. All British schoolchildren and their parents knew about the escapades of the young Alice. With a new score by Philip Glass, a figurehead of American minimalism, choreographers Amir Hosseinpour and Jonathan Lunn reimagine and reinvent Lewis Carroll's fantastical world. Freed from the original narrative, the dancers of the OnR Ballet play a new gallery of contemporary creatures and characters, joined by actress Sunnyi Melles.

title: Taniel

overview: "Taniel" looks at the last months of poet Taniel Varoujan's life, who was murdered in the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The film's narrative is heard in poetry and seen through Film Noir images.

title: These Vagabond Shoes

overview: A man travels across New York City to get a Nathan's Famous hot dog.

title: A Walk Through Prospero's Library

overview: A short made for TV with director Peter Greenaway discussing the dazzling 3.5 minute opening sequence from his film, 'Prospero's Books'. As Prospero (John Gielgud) walks through his library, Greenaway comments on the historical, mythological, biblical & fictional characters occupying the library.

title: Mama General

overview: A film about poverty in a rich country: father, mother, seven children have made it out of the homeless asylum. The author met the Cologne family B. for the first time in 1976. Living with debts, installments, reminders, living with the certainty that the children will not fare any differently. For more than twenty years, between dreams and fears, the camera recorded two generations' fear of failure and hunger for middle class. A unique film chronicle from the "latest economic miracle" - between 1976 and 1997.

title: LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE

overview: Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the distance between COVID-19 patients and their family members through letters, that eventually turn into video messages or photographs during the peak of the pandemic giving people hope and certainty. It is also a voyage through the lives of mexican families who faced the most painful pandemic, due to their social, economic and political contexts while being moved by hope and love.

title: Einstein on the Beach

overview: This seminal work of avant-garde opera from composer Philip Glass and director Robert Wilson arrives full-circle, coming to France, the site of its 1976 Avignon Festival world premiere, at the tail end of this 2014 revival tour for a landmark Theâtre du Châtelet production and a first ever filming by award-winning arts filmmaker Don Kent.  Eschewing conventional narrative, the opera revolves loosely around pacifist Einstein’s relationship to the creation of the atomic bomb.

title: Objects and Memory

overview: Using stories of items recovered or offered after 9/11 and other tragedies, this film explores the human impulse to create community and reestablish connection in times of upheaval.

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

overview: Following the success of his first foray into opera, Einstein on the Beach, revolutionary American composer and musician Philip Glass soon turned to another great figure of the 20th century for inspiration. Set to lines from the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, Satyagraha depicts scenes from the life of Gandhi as he developed his philosophy of non-violent resistance in South Africa between 1896 and 1913. The opera became the second installment of Glass’s Portrait Trilogy, focused on innovators from across history. Satyagraha arrived at the Met during the 2007–08 season, when director Phelim McDermott made his debut with a production that employed everyday materials like newspaper and corrugated tin to create towering puppets and striking tableaus. In 2011, his staging returned, this time recorded live in HD. In this performance, tenor Richard Croft gives a moving performance as Gandhi, leading a remarkable ensemble cast conducted by Dante Anzolini.

title: Re: Awakenings

overview: 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 summer of 1969 and “awakened” after decades of inactivity is featured in this cine-poem that combines archival footage with a score for solo saxophone composed by Philip Glass.

title: Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos

overview: As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere of Glass's Concerto for Two Pianos with the Orchester de Paris.

title: Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective

overview: Watch Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble perform at the Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur. An evening of Glass's seminal works composed specifically for the ensemble -- the principal performers of his work since 1968--featuring Music in Similar Motion, Façades featuring Jon Gibson, Building from Einstein on the Beach, excerpts from Music in Twelve Parts, and Dance IX from In the Upper Room.

original_title: Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective

title: In the Penal Colony

overview: 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 arrives to witness the use of a strange machine in the execution of a prisoner. It is a parable for the consequences of the abuse of power and corruption.

title: Roving Mars

overview: Join the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet.

title: Hard-Hearted

overview: A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.

title: Secret Window

overview: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

title: Undertow

overview: The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.

title: La mort de Molière

overview: A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by Müller himself. "Cinema watches Death at work." Wilson's actors watch Molière die: their vigil is hard work. Müller's comment: "The poem watches a dying man at work, his name is Molière. The poem is not a film. The film watches an actor playing a dying man called Molière."

title: Kundun

overview: The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

title: The Man in the Bath

overview: An audiovisual work by Philip Glass and Peter Greenaway.

title: Glass: The Perfect American

overview: 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 performances in Madrid in January 2013.

title: Astral City: A Spiritual Journey

overview: The selfish Dr. André Luiz dies and awakes in the limbo called "Umbral". After a painful period in the gruesome swamp, he is rescued and brought in a white light to "Nosso Lar" (meaning "Our Home"). He finds a place of harmony, where people live in peace awaiting

title: Elena

overview: After suffering from a heart attack, a wealthy elderly Russian man plans to will most of his estate to his estranged daughter, but his titular wife has other plans.

title: The Song

overview: The film is based on the cycle of graphic works of the famous Lithuanian artist Stasys Krasauskas "Birth of a Woman" and is dedicated to the memory of Stasys Krasauskas.

title: Continuum: 1. Initiation

overview: Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.

title: The Secret Agent

overview: In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.

title: Wildfire

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

title: Animals in Love

overview: Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting, mating and reproduction activities. Laurent Charbonnier directs.

title: Inquiring Nuns

overview: Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"

title: Candyman

overview: The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

title: Naqoyqatsi

overview: A visual montage portrait of our contemporary world dominated by globalized technology and violence.

title: Chappaqua

overview: Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black-and-white and monochrome tinted shots, "Chappaqua" is conventionally constructed with a beginning, middle, and end.

title: Koyaanisqatsi

title: The Thin Blue Line

overview: An unorthodox investigation into the wrongful conviction of Randall Dale Adams for the 1976 murder of Dallas police officer Robert Wood. Using stylized reenactments and interviews with key figures, conflicting testimonies and evidence are presented to argue that Adams was framed by a corrupt justice system, ultimately leading to his exoneration.

title: The Interview

overview: Henry Czerny plays American journalist Michael Coleman, a strung-out expatriate writing for a Brazilian newspaper. His professional obsession is Father Stephen Louis, a mildly popular and charismatic priest who has been the major political opponent of the greedy and ruthless landowners of the Bahia region. Mysteriously, the usually outspoken Father Louis has been silent for three months. With the Brazilian Congress about to vote on a major land-redistribution bill that could potentially tip the balance of power even further, Father Louis’s support of the peasants and his condemnation of the landowners is more important than ever. Coleman sets out alone for the politically unstable Bahia region to capture a highly anticipated interview with the elusive priest.

title: Jane

overview: Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives, director Brett Morgen tells the story of Jane Goodall, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

title: North Star: Mark di Suvero

overview: North Star: Mark di Suvero is a 1977 documentary film about Mark di Suvero that was produced by François de Menil and Barbara Rose. Born in 1933, di Suvero has become one of the most recognized sculptors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. From about 1975 to 1977, fairly early in di Suvero's long career, filmmaker de Menil and art historian Rose produced this film, which was characterized at the time as "a tribute to the extraordinary work and life of the innovative American sculptor of monumental but delicate constructions." The film shows di Suvero making and installing several of his very large sculptures, and incorporates informal interviews of di Suvero, his mother, and others involved in his career and life at that time. From 1971 to 1975 di Suvero, an American, lived in a self-imposed exile in France in protest of US involvement in war in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, and the filming spans the end of his exile and his return to New York.

title: The Origins of AIDS

overview: While AIDS may be one of the most feared diseases of modern times, there is still a degree of scientific debate over the subject of just how the disease originated, and how the first cases spread. Two filmmakers explore a controversial theory about the beginnings of the disease. Using interviews, newsreel footage, and documented research experiments, The Origin of AIDS examines how a combination of benevolence, careless lab procedures, and the need of a desperate few to cover their tracks could have led to one of the most serious pandemics of the 20th century.

title: The Moustache

overview: One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all insist he never had a moustache. Is Marc going mad? Is he the victim of some elaborate conspiracy? Or has something in the world's order gone terribly awry?

title: Monolithe

title: Carolyn I

overview: The first part of the Carolyn Carlson cycle. Between her and herself. Three images of the dance are repeated, come up against opacities that do not let themselves be crossed, are lost in transparencies from which there is no reflection. The sound describes their inevitable journey: this motionless movement.

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

title: Neverwas

overview: Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.

title: Besa: The Promise

overview: A documentary exploring how Albanians, including many Muslims, helped and sheltered Jewish refugees during WWII at their own risk, and trying to help the son of an Albanian baker that housed a Jewish family for a year return some Hebrew books that the family had to leave behind.

title: Bent

overview: Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.

title: Perfect Moment

title: Crônica da Demolição

overview: At the heart of Rio de Janeiro's downtown, an empty square with a dry fountain and an underground parking. There was located the Monroe Palace, that once housed the Senate, and was mysteriously demolished forty years ago. A history of sabers and lions, military and architects, past and future.

title: November 22, 1963

overview: Josiah “Tink” Thompson discusses the Kennedy assassination, the nature of truth and photographic evidence in this short film from director Errol Morris.

title: Sara

overview: Sara is the perfect young housewife. When husband Hessam requires an expensive emergency operation abroad, it is she who works for the funds. For the next three years she labors secretly to pay the shady loan shark and save Hessam - until the truth is revealed and with it, the reality of her marriage.

title: Leviathan

overview: In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.

title: Anhedonia

title: Empire City

overview: A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.

title: Railroaded

overview: An absurdist comedy short directed and produced by Harrison Engle. Features one of the first film scores by Philip Glass.

title: The Pigeon Tunnel

overview: Academy Award winner Errol Morris pulls back the curtain on the storied life and career of David Cornwell, the former spy known to the literary world as John le Carré.

title: Mindwalk

overview: On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Jack, a failed presidential candidate, Tom, a poet and Sonia, a physicist, engage in an intellectual conversation about politics, philosophy and life over the course of a single day.

title: Glass: Kepler

overview: Live performance of Philip Glass's opera Kepler (2009) by the Landestheater Linz Upper Austrian State Theater in 2011, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies.

title: Einstein on the Beach

title: The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

title: A Perfect Couple

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

title: ACT III

overview: Abstract video art set to the music of Philip Glass.

title: Continuum: Parts 1 & 2

overview: Abstract video art with music composed by Philip Glass. Music by the Kronos String Quartet.

title: The Giant Buddhas

overview: Christian Frei's documentary traces the tragic tale of the giant Buddhas of Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley, which stood as monumental landmarks for 1,500 years until 2001, when the Taliban declared that all non-Islamic statues in the country be destroyed. Despite international protest, the statues were blown up. Through interwoven narratives from past and present, Frei's film sheds light on the disturbing consequences of religious fanaticism.

title: End of the Art World

overview: This is the debut documentary made by Alexis Krasilovsky, author of "Women Behind The Camera" (Praeger, 1997). Shot on 16mm in 1971, the film covers much of the New York avant-garde of the time.

title: The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten

overview: Philip Glass’ opera “Akhnaten”, premiered in Stuttgart in 1984, forms the third part of the portrait opera trilogy about personalities who have influenced the course of human history. The conclusion of the trilogy deals with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten, who attempted to establish a kind of monotheistic cult around the god Aton during his reign in the 14th century BC, but failed due to the resistance of the priesthood. The production presented here was undoubtedly one of the very great successes of the 2019/20 season at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, due not only to the outstanding cast of singers (led by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo) but also to Phelim McDermott’s imaginative staging, which captivates with sometimes breathtaking imagery.

title: Isy Boukir

overview: Nancy Graves statement, 1971: "Izy Boukir  contains footage filmed in the Sahara during eighteen days. I wanted to extend sequences [from earlier films] and to a greater degree permit the animal motions to determine structure. An Arriflex [camera] was often positioned five to ten feet from the animals. In New York, partite animal forms were separated into two segments: as walking and as graduated motion. Through the edited sequential duration, camel morphology vies with the viewer's inherent anthropomorphism. For me this film is the most successful in that the impression of these animals as primordial beings existing in barren yet awesomely beautiful surroundings far outweighs a consciousness of complicated editing and sound relationships."

title: Vivre est une solution

overview: Surroundings of the Canal Saint-Martin’s in Paris, a popular district where modernization is just about to begin.

title: Fantastic Four

overview: Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.

title: Anxious Automation

title: Untitled: New Blue

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

title: The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

title: Universal Machine

overview: Universal Machine is a meditation on the ultimate fate of humanity's relationship with technology. Featuring music by Philip Glass, the film follows a gifted young woman who awakens into a post-apocalyptic world and must transcend a violent confrontation with a lifelike Artificial Intelligence. Progressing through an elaborate sequence of dance and fight choreography, the action of the film beckons towards an evolved future of peace and compassion.

title: The Last Dalai Lama?

title: Samurai Marathon

overview: When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independent-minded daughter Yuki secretly joins the race.

title: A Brief History of Time

overview: This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and unable to speak without the use of a computer. Hawking's friends, family, classmates, and peers are interviewed not only about his theories but the man himself.

title: The Juniper Tree

overview: 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 unsuspecting father. The boy’s sister buries her brother’s bones under a nearby Juniper Tree, and the child’s spirit returns as a singing bird who wreaks vengeance on the evil Stepmother before being restored to life in the bosom of his family.

title: Lucinda Childs' Dance

title: Mirror of the Planet

overview: Jytte Rex' sixth feature explores the here and now, the once and future beyond, Death and Eros, and proof of God's existence to be found in the Black Holes in a universe of nothingness. Tangible human individuals like Adam, an astronome, and two small children move through the surreal landscapes of Jytte Rex' cinematic poetry. If a door opens, it is only to lead you into Eternity's ultimate maze.

title: The Baroness and the Pig

overview: A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.

title: Un leader in ascolto

overview: The documentary traces the life of Luciano Lama, one of the major protagonists of Italian trade union history.  From the years of the Resistance to those in which he was mayor of Amelia, a small Umbrian village. From the years alongside the " 'his teacher Di Vittorio "' to the secretariat of the CGIL, through the stories of those who have been close to him, we arrive at the fifties and sixties who see Lama first at the head of the chemists and then of the metalworkers.  But it is the seventies and eighties the real protagonists, years in which Lama is at the head of the largest Italian trade union organization: he becomes secretary in the moments of maximum brilliance of the union and is forced to face one battle after another: the agreement on the single point of contingency, the oil crisis, the turning point of the Eur, the fight against terrorism, the referendum on the escalator.

title: Cassandra's Dream

overview: The tale of two brothers with serious financial woes. When a third party proposes they turn to crime, things go bad and the two become enemies.

title: Closet Land

overview: A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.

title: Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry

overview: Simon-Pierre Bestion celebrates the musical and cultural heritage of Paris' Notre-Dame with the La Tempête ensemble and a host of guests like Sabine Devieilhe and Olivier Latry, among others.

original_title: Concert for Notre-Dame La Tempête | Sabine Devieilhe | Olivier Latry

title: Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel With Yuja Wang and the Orchestre de Paris

overview: Invited to the Philharmonie de Paris, the virtuoso Yuja Wang performs a programme of Maurice Ravel's two piano concertos, conducted by Klaus Mäkela.

original_title: Klaus Mäkelä dirige Ravel Avec Yuja Wang & l'Orchestre de Paris

title: The Apostle

overview: A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.

title: Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom

overview: At the Lightroom in London, pianist Yuja Wang offers an extraordinary recital at the heart of the immersive exhibition devoted to David Hockney. In this concert, the British painter's brightly coloured canvases enter into communion with the musical works performed, ranging from Bach to Samuel Barber. An unusual unison of the visual and audio arts.

title: No Reservations

title: Neverwas

title: Once Within a Time

overview: Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us life on Earth as humanity clashes with the five fundamental elements—earth, air, water, fire, and money— headed towards a critical moment of choice between annihilation and redemption.

title: Dobrawa Czocher Europavox Sessions 2023

overview: The cinematic, repetitive music of Polish instrumentalist Dobrawa Czocher evokes the work of Philip Glass in its textured atmospheres and deep emotion. A dreamy neoclassical highlight of the Europavox festival.

title: The Lost Ones

overview: Set in an "abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one". The abode is a flattened cylinder with rubber walls fifty meters in circumference and eighteen meters high. It is constantly illuminated by a dim, yellow light, and the temperature fluctuates between 5°C to 25°C, sometimes in as small an interval as four seconds. This leads to extremely parched skin, and the bodies brush against each other like dry leaves. Kisses make an "indescribable sound" and the rubber makes the footsteps mostly silent.

title: The Church

overview: In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.

title: CHIMALMA

overview: Told through a collage of eerie visuals and oppressive atmosphere, Chimalma is an ambient horror short that explores the dread of infinity, the quiet despair of existence, and the senselessness that underpins reality. The film channels a raw, unshakable mood: not of what might harm you—but of the vast, uncaring universe in which you were never meant to be noticed.

title: Carolyn Carlson : Midnight Souls

overview: In the main courtyard of the Palais des Papes, dancers Hugo Marchand and Caroline Osmont perform among Jean-Michel Othoniel's works, choreographed by Carolyn Carlson. A powerful show, accompanied by music by Philip Glass and René Aubry.

original_title: Carolyn Carlson - Midnight Souls (Palais des Papes, Avignon) 2025

title: Istanbul: Chronopolis

overview: Istanbul: Chronopolis is an experimental documentary that explores the city as a living organism where the linear flow of time is disrupted and the past and future coexist. Structured around a thematic cycle of birth, speed, and decay, the film uses rhythmic visuals and archival footage to bridge temporal gaps. Through a fourteen-minute mathematical edit, it replaces linguistic narrative with the evocative language of time-lapse and slow-motion cinematography. The project invites the audience to transcend chronological time and experience Istanbul as an eternal moment—an entity existing solely within its own timeless cycle.

title: Vanessa Wagner & Friends @ Paris Sur Mesure

overview: Pianist Vanessa Wagner joins forces with circus artist Chloé Moglia, choreographer Kader Attou, dancers from the Accrorap company and set designers from Collectif Scale to bring Philip Glass's Piano Etudes to life.

original_title: Vanessa Wagner & Friends Paris Sur Mesure

title: The Truman Show

title: Mallorca

title: Glass: Spuren der Verirrten

overview: The world premiere of the opera Spuren der Verirrten (The Lost) composed by Philip Glass.

title: Patti Smith: Dream of Life

title: Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland

title: Hands Scraping

title: A Brief History of Errol Morris

title: Four American Composers: Philip Glass

title: The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

title: The Source

title: What Difference Does It Make?

title: The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter

title: A Place Called Music

title: The Making of "Once Within a Time"

title: Richard Serra: Man of Steel

title: The Truman Show

title: The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch

title: 365 Day Project

title: Philip Glass: Looking Glass

title: What Maisie Knew

title: Impact of Progress

title: Essence of Life

title: Perfect Moment

title: In the Ocean

title: Bye Bye Kipling

title: Trophy

title: Music

title: Kiki and Herb Reloaded

title: The Last Dalai Lama?

title: The Harry Smith Project Live

title: Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars

title: Lucinda Childs' Dance

title: Paul Simon: Under African Skies

title: Making Mishima

title: War and the Weather

title: The Viking of Sixth Avenue

title: Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress

title: John Cage: Man and Myth

title: Nova '78

title: Refuge

title: Notes on a Scandal

title: The Illusionist

title: The Hours

title: Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

title: Pointy Teeth for Pointy People

title: Hamburger Hill

title: No Reservations

title: Koyaanisqatsi

title: Taking Lives

title: Powaqqatsi

title: In the Upper Room

title: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

title: The Fog of War

title: Mr. Nice

title: Philip Glass: Akhnaten

title: Essence of Life

title: Anima Mundi

title: They Were There

title: Evidence

title: The Eden Myth

title: Rebirth

title: You, Me, and Movies

title: Geometry of Circles

title: Trans-Action

title: Visitors

title: War and the Weather

title: The Source

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

title: Alice

title: Taniel

title: These Vagabond Shoes

title: A Walk Through Prospero's Library

title: Mama General

title: LETTERS FROM A DISTANCE

title: Einstein on the Beach

title: Objects and Memory

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

title: Re: Awakenings

title: Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos

title: In the Penal Colony

title: Roving Mars

title: Hard-Hearted

title: Secret Window

title: Undertow

title: La mort de Molière

title: Kundun

title: The Man in the Bath

title: Glass: The Perfect American

title: Astral City: A Spiritual Journey

title: Elena

title: The Song

title: Continuum: 1. Initiation

title: The Secret Agent

title: Wildfire

title: Animals in Love

title: Inquiring Nuns

title: Candyman

title: Naqoyqatsi

title: Chappaqua

title: Koyaanisqatsi

title: The Thin Blue Line

title: The Interview

title: Jane

title: North Star: Mark di Suvero

title: The Origins of AIDS

title: The Moustache

title: Monolithe

title: Carolyn I

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

title: Neverwas

title: Besa: The Promise

title: Bent

title: Perfect Moment

title: Crônica da Demolição

title: November 22, 1963

title: Sara

title: Leviathan

title: Anhedonia

title: Empire City

title: Railroaded

title: The Pigeon Tunnel

title: Mindwalk

title: Glass: Kepler

title: Einstein on the Beach

title: The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July

title: A Perfect Couple

title: ACT III

title: Continuum: Parts 1 & 2

title: End of the Art World

title: The Giant Buddhas

title: The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten

title: Isy Boukir

title: Vivre est une solution

title: Fantastic Four

title: Anxious Automation

title: Untitled: New Blue

title: The Metropolitan Opera: Akhnaten

title: Philip Glass: Satyagraha

title: Universal Machine

title: The Last Dalai Lama?

title: Samurai Marathon

title: A Brief History of Time

title: The Juniper Tree

title: Lucinda Childs' Dance

title: Mirror of the Planet

title: The Baroness and the Pig

title: Un leader in ascolto

title: Cassandra's Dream

title: Closet Land

title: The Apostle

title: No Reservations

title: Neverwas

title: Once Within a Time

title: Dobrawa Czocher Europavox Sessions 2023

title: The Lost Ones

title: The Church

title: CHIMALMA

title: Carolyn Carlson : Midnight Souls

title: Istanbul: Chronopolis

title: The Truman Show

title: Mallorca

title: Glass: Spuren der Verirrten