Movies: Contemporary classical music
- 2014
Einstein on the Beach (2014)
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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...
- 2024
The Serena Variations (2024)
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A young violin prodigy is manipulated and pushed to her psychological breaking point by the composer she adores....
- 2021
The Conductor (2021)
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Leonard Bernstein’s protégée Marin Alsop reveals how she smashed the glass ceiling to become an internationally renowned conductor....
- 2015
John Adams conducts John Adams (2015)
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Like many of John Adams’ operas, Doctor Atomic is based on recent world historical events—here, the effusive Robert Oppenheimer, “father of the atomic bomb,” anxiously awaits the bomb’s first test in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Adams adapted the work int...
- 1968
Choreography for a Camera and Dancers (1968)
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The first experimental dance film from Croatia, which pays homage to the pioneer of experimental and dance film Maya Deren and her "Study in Choreography for Camera" from 1945. The theme of the film is inspired by a composition by Ivo Malec "Miniatur...
- 2015
The Lost Paradise (2015)
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He is the most performed contemporary composer in the world. And yet he rarely ventures out in public, prefers to keep quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and generates therewith - perhaps involuntarily - the impression of ...
- 2012
No Ideas But in Things - the composer Alvin Lucier (2012)
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“Don’t ask me what I mean, ask me what I’ve made” – inspired by this motto, the documentary accompanies the American composer Alvin Lucier (1931 - 2021) on concert travels to The Hague (Netherlands) and Zug (Switzerland). Lucier explains and comments...
- 2021
The West is a Land of Infinite Beginnings (2021)
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Alone in the woods, a young man is pursued by a horrifying specter and by visions of his deceased sisters. A meditation on the precarious uncertainty of the American Dream and the role that uncontrollable forces play in our lives, The West is a Land ...
- 2005
Philip Glass: Looking Glass (2005)
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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 y...
- 2006
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams (2006)
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Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play against the backdrop of dramatic American landscapes that reflect the themes of his music. Though he has a num...
- 1990
The Fire and the Rose (1990)
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A documentary on the life and work of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina....
- 2017
Tomorrow will be the same (2017)
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Insatiable lust reigned over senseless flesh. Like august flies, trying to escape certain death, people before the apocalypse started to copulate, until every single one was completely exhausted. Only two people remained untouched. Having merged, l...
- 2016
A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo (2016)
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Jo Kondo (*1947) is one of the most interesting composers of contemporary music in Japan. His music is composed intuitively and at the same time it is highly abstract. Without clear directionality and at the same time not without form. For a Japanes...
- 1966
The Opening of the Wells (1966)
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The Opening of the Wells with music by the Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu was supposed to be part of Laterna Magika II.: Tour programme in 1960. However, it was banned by the communist committee tasked with judging the performance from “a political...
- 2016
Accept (2016)
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- 2019
To B or to B Flat - the composer Boudewijn Buckinx (2019)
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Who gets the idea to write “Nine unfinished symphonies” - one of them perhaps the shortest Symphony in music history? Or "1001 sonatas’ - each lasting about a minute but in total being one of the longest pieces ever written? Like a postmodern Erik...
- 2013
Soñarse muerto (2013)
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José Manuel Ortiz, 32, has had a great interest and sensitivity towards music since he was very young. He grows up listening to the anecdotes of his great-grandfather Carlos Amable Ortiz who was the first academic musician in Ecuador. After the death...
- 2002
Reich: Three Tales (2002)
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- 2010
Knots and Fields (2010)
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Knots and Fields examines the aesthetic debates and tensions that have animated the Darmstadt courses over six decades, exploring their relevance today in an increasingly globalised environment....
- 2014
Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler (2014)
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A cello piece A punt ride Thoughts about music and composition The eight lines of Ernstalbrecht Stiebler’s cello piece Sequenz 2 alternating with his thoughts about slowness, space, reduction, repetition, resonance, liveliness and emotion A cinem...