In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of their childhoods and embracing their full humanity. Feminists - What Were They Thinking? revisits those photos, those women and those times and takes aim at our culture today that alarmingly shows the need for continued change.
Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys club, the truth is from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come. As one of the film’s subjects, Laurie Spiegel explains: “W...
31:36, 1984, color, sound
In this videotape, Nam June Paik pays tribute to a number of pop stars in his pan-cultural pantheon. He re-enacts certain Fluxus musical performances of the 1960s and 70s including those with the destruction of a piano and the concert with Charlotte Moorman on the cello.
A synthesised Sakamoto portrait, an interview with Charlotte Moorman, interviews w...
Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William Burroughs' bunker until his nephew Aaron unearths his uncle's story and the memory of everything he was.
很多人出现了,聊着或是日常或是宏大的命题,抒发着所见所感,又急匆匆消失,没有缘由。他们中有人带来了戏剧,有人带来了音乐,还有人什么都没带来。他们在寻找谁呢?他们会再次看到那颗 \"星 \"吗?导演将无数段奇妙旅程的连结,在超现实和哲学两端肆意游走。每个人物的旅程都涉及到从地狱深处到天堂的上升,同时受到神圣的彗星的指引。
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As part of a personal quest, for over 30 years director Hermann Vaske filmed the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers, including over 50 luminaries, among them Academy Award and Nobel Prize winners, from the fields of visual art, music, acting, philosophy, politics, business and science, posing the question: "Why are you creative?" Vaske's subjects include: D...