John CageFilmography

Hans Van Manen Festival

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: As mounted by The Dutch National Ballet to commemorate ballet choreographer Hans van Manen's 75th birthday, the aptly-named Hans Van Manen Festival brought together representative dancers from companies around the world, who pay homage to Manen by performing many of his best known and most Read More

Margaret Leng Tan: The Maverick Piano

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Margaret Leng Tan

Synopsis: This concert release features a series of piano performances by avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan. Selections include compositions by Ge Gan-Ru, Toby Twining, John Cage and Erik Satie. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: Cursive II

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: The choreographer behind such acclaimed works as Moon Water and Bamboo Dream returns with a masterful performance-piece inspired by Chinese calligraphy and featuring the highly-praised Cloud Gate dangers. Trained in martial arts, Chi-Kung, and meditation, the Cloud Gate dancers bring Lin Read More

In the Ocean

Buckminster Fuller: Thinking Out Loud

Synopsis: Architect, engineer, philosopher, author and poet Buckminster Fuller was one of the great iconoclasts of the 20th century, alternately revered and misunderstood, his ideas were far ahead of their time and even today have yet to be fully realized. Best known for creating the geodesic dome (examples Read More

John Cage: From Zero

49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: Geographically speaking, the iconoclastic yet brilliant composer John Cage identified himself primarily with Manhattan, which served as his home for decades. On October 6, 1977, Cage published a unique work of art in Rolling Stone magazine (with the encouragement of Jann Wenner) entitled "49 Read More

The Misfits - 30 Years of Fluxus

The Revenge of the Dead Indians

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Director Henning Lohner pays tribute to revered avant-garde musician John Cage with this documentary featuring interviews with John Zorn, Frank Zappa, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono, Rutger Hauer, Noam Chomsky, Matt Groening, and more. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Beach Birds for Camera

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

One 11 and 103

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Listen

Synopsis: With the documentary Sound, the innovative and experimental filmmaker Miroslav Sebestik provides a protracted cinematic exploration of the nature of sound per se. Taking full advantage of film's aural potential, Sebestik not only works in insightful, exploratory interviews with such Read More

Cage / Cunningham

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: If they've heard of him at all, most people assume that they have heard none of avant-garde musician John Cage's compositions. However, many of his works have been used in film scores, and (in the 1990s) he has even composed directly for films. His music remains uncompromisingly innovative, and is Read More

Changing Steps

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Redford

Mr. Hoover and I

Actors: Emile de Antonio, John Cage

Synopsis: In this documentary, avant-garde filmmaker Emile DeAntonio (1920-1989) discusses filmmaking with his friend, musician John Cage, but chiefly explores the myth and reality of the former Director of the F.B.I., J. Edgar Hoover. During his lifetime, Hoover was idolized as a paragon of decency and Read More

The Collaborators

Points in Space

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Synopsis: The first part of this tape consists of an original BBC documentary chronicling the critically acclaimed collaboration between choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and director Elliot Caplan; the second, a performance of Points in Space as performed by Cunningham's dance company. Read More

4 American Composers: John Cage

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: It makes sense that an offbeat director such as Peter Greenaway (The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books) would be attracted to a project such as 4 American Composers, a 1983 British television special profiling John Cage, Meredith Monk, Philip Glass, and Robert Ashley, four Read More

Poetry in Motion

Actors: Jim Carroll, Charles Bukowski, Amiri Baraka, Anne Waldman

Synopsis: Director Ron Mann has put together readings by 24 different poets (after filming a total of 60 writers reciting their works), and then has poet and author Charles Bukowski verbalize "everyman's" criticisms of poetry: it is boring, irrelevant, self-indulgent, and does not make much sense. Then he Read More

John Cage

Synopsis: John Cage, had never appeared on film or allowed his music to be recorded, until now. In this discussion video he talks about his music and the reasons behind it. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

C'est la Vie Rrose

Actors: I Sa Lo, Hannah Wilke, John Cage

Synopsis: The odd slant on life possessed by one of the original surrealists and premiere "constructivist" artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) gives form to this homage to the master of absurdism. Duchamp occasionally used the pseudonym "Rrose Selavy," which, without the extra "r," reads (in French) Read More

Merce Cunningham's Rainforest

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Carolyn Brown, Merce Cunningham, Barbara Lloyd, Sandra Neels, Albert Reid

Sound??

Dreams That Money Can Buy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Max Ernst

Synopsis: Surrealist painter and Dada film-theorist Hans Richter wrote, produced, and directed the experimental exercise Dreams That Money Can Buy, one of the most significant contributions to the 20th-century "avant garde" movement. The project began in 1944, while Richter was director of the Institute of Read More

At Land

Actors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Parker Tyler, John Cage, Mort Marcus

Synopsis: In this surrealist film, Maya Deren's character rolls up on the beach, backwards. She crawls through a party unnoticed, but ultimately has social encounters with a number of people, and snatches a chess piece from a game in progress, running past at least three of her selves on her way down the Read More

By Cage Interview / Performance

Synopsis: The work of James Joyce becomes creative material for Cage while he is being interviewed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hans Van Manen: Six Choreographies 75th Anniversary

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Staged, shot and released to commemorate Dutch choreographer Hans Van Manen's 75th birthday, the performance release Hans Van Manen: Six Choreographies 75th Anniversary presents renditions of six of Van Manen's most famous choreographed works, interpreted by the Het Nationale Ballet and the Read More