Movies: Lucinda Childs

  • 2014
    Regarding Susan Sontag

    Regarding Susan Sontag (2014)

    Regarding Susan Sontag

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    An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracking feminist icon Susan Sontag’s seminal, life-changing moments through archival materials, accounts from friends, family, colleagues, and lovers, as w...

    Regarding Susan Sontag
  • 1965
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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    The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls...

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests
  • 2014
    Einstein on the Beach

    Einstein on the Beach (2014)

    Einstein on the Beach

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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...

    Einstein on the Beach
  • 1980
    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers (1980)

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

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    Made in 1980, this film explores the contemporary dance scene through the work of seven New York-based choreographers. They discuss the nature of dance and the evolution of their own work. Filmed at rehearsals, performances, and during interviews, th...

    Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers
  • 1966
    Manual of Arms

    Manual of Arms (1966)

    Manual of Arms

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    In this "fourteen-part drill for the camera," Frampton created a portrait gallery of his art-world friends engaging in a variety of ordinary activities....

    Manual of Arms
  • 1983
    Unguided Tour

    Unguided Tour (1983)

    Unguided Tour

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    Also known as “Letter from Venice,” Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice....

    Unguided Tour
  • 1985
    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera (1985)

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera

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    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....

    Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
  • 2015
    Adam's Passion

    Adam's Passion (2015)

    Adam's Passion

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    Adam’s Passion is the moving first collaboration between two “masters of slow motion who harmonize perfectly with each other” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). In the spectacular setting of a former submarine factory, American director and universal ...

    Adam's Passion
  • 2007
    John Adams: Doctor Atomic

    John Adams: Doctor Atomic (2007)

    John Adams: Doctor Atomic

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    The European premiere of the opera by the contemporary American composer John Adams, with libretto by Peter Sellars, in a co-production of the San Francisco Opera (where the work premiered), the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and De Nederlandse Opera. The p...

    John Adams: Doctor Atomic
  • 1964
    Shoulder

    Shoulder (1964)

    Shoulder

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    According to the first volume of the Andy Warhol film cat. rais., the film was probably shot on the same day as Jill Johnston Dancing. In the Stephen Koch filmography, Shoulder is listed as: "16mm, 4 minutes, B/W, silent, 16 fps. Filmed summer, 1964....

    Shoulder
  • 1969
    Screen Test [ST52] Lucinda Childs

    Screen Test [ST52] Lucinda Childs (1969)

    Screen Test [ST52] Lucinda Childs

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    One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Childs. Runs 4 minutes, 30 seconds in length....

    Screen Test [ST52] Lucinda Childs
  • 2011
    Lucinda Childs' Dance

    Lucinda Childs' Dance (2011)

    Lucinda Childs' Dance

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    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 l...

    Lucinda Childs' Dance
  • 1978
    Video 50

    Video 50 (1978)

    Video 50

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    Produced in an era before 24-hour programming cycles, Video 50 was initially used as a late night filler on TV stations in Germany, France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Random, surreal, and unexpected, Video 50 resembles the dream cycle of a dormant TV ...

    Video 50
  • 1964
    Screen Test [ST53]: Lucinda Childs

    Screen Test [ST53]: Lucinda Childs (1964)

    Screen Test [ST53]: Lucinda Childs

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    One of two(?) 1964 screen tests of Childs. Runs 4 minutes, 24 seconds in length...

    Screen Test [ST53]: Lucinda Childs
  • 2014
    Dance

    Dance (2014)

    Dance

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    Performed at Theatre de la Ville in Paris and choreographed by Lucinda Childs. Music composed by Philip Glass....

    Dance
  • 2020
    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten (2020)

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten

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    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...

    Philip Glass: Akhnaten
  • 1973
    Calico Mingling

    Calico Mingling (1973)

    Calico Mingling

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    Choreographed by american choreographer, Lucinda Childs, the film explores complex patterns that are created with the simple action of walking...

    Calico Mingling
  • 1981
    21:12 Piano Bar

    21:12 Piano Bar (1981)

    21:12 Piano Bar

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    Florence is found dead and mutilated. When Nathalie hears about this in the bar where she plays piano she becomes interested. She tries to get in touch with the people who knew Florence closely. Eventually she gets them to talk about Florence's destr...

    21:12 Piano Bar