Movies: Phill Niblock

A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle....

An irreverent take on Mozart's relations with the three Weber sisters: Louisa, whom he loved, but who didn't love him; Constanza, whom he loved and married; and Sophie, who loved him but whom he didn't love. An anthology of arias from Mozart's operas...

Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985....

Asylum inmate dreams of freedom before medial reality steps in....

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a so-called negative post-process, while Niblock's camera focuses on microscopic details of hands, bodies ...

A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the film archive... He celebrates his birthday in an alleyway, with a friend, and finishes his journey with ...

Two nudes, a man and a woman, interact with each other and a large balloon in a white living room. Performed by Steve Paxton and Becky Arnold. Camerawork by Phill Niblock....

Speaking of Neuhaus, he's the subject of the next film, 'Max', which pairs another of his soundscapes against a succession of processed images and heavily edited, percussion-based performance footage....

A compilation of non-narrative films shot in the 1970s and 1980s by Phill Niblock concerned with the movement people make when they do menial tasks....

Annie (1969) : 'Annie' is Niblock's portrait of the dancer Ann Danoff set to the soundtrack of a concrète collage by Max Neuhaus....

Another short film by Niblock which consists simply of Hannah Weiner reading from one of her texts, initially in close-up and then over footage of her in her office and then in her armchair.....

A blond woman (Susan Marshall) in white pants and shirt interacts with a moving round object and the camera. Camerawork by Phill Niblock....

Dog Track (1969) : For Dogtrack a deeply unsettling, bestiality-themed found text is read aloud with alarming detachment by Barbara Porte while Niblock intercuts between static location shots of urban and natural locations....

As the longest night of the year unfolds and the journey of our planet nears the point when Winter commences in the Northern Hemisphere, Phill Niblock stages his annual Winter Solstice concert for the 10th consecutive year at Roulette. Starting at 6p...

A short film by Niblock which consists simply of Armand Schwermer reading from his epic poem The Tablets with commentary, while strolling about in front of a Staten Island cityscape......

A 59 minute extreme close-up long take of ice cubes slowly melting until they become just water in a stainless steel sink to Phill Niblock's composition "Stosspeng"....

A 30 minute extreme close-up long take of the flow of sand trickling from the upper to the lower glass chamber of and hourglass to Phill Niblock's composition "Feedcorn Ear"....

A 46 minute extreme close-up long take of a knife point counting grains of white rice, one by one, on a white surface, to the orchestra piece "One Large Rose"....

Children play. First shown normally, then shown in reverse....

Original 16mm footage was filmed on location in China, mostly in the mountains around the city of Luding. At 33:15, the locale switches to the environs of Shanghai, the area around the delta of the Yangtze River. At 38:00, the location is the vicinit...