A fascinating study of merging form with content, broken into four shorts, each complete with opening title and closing credits: "19 Questions," "Fourteen," "Paying Attention," and "Overpopulation and Art."
Director: Frank Scheffer
John Cage
Self
The Conductor
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Exterminating Angel
2017
The Fire and the Rose
1990
Everything Else Is Noise
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K-Classics Generation
2020
Reich: Three Tales
2002
I Am Sitting in a Room
1970
Hail Bop! A Portrait of John Adams
2006
The Opening of the Wells
1966
No Ideas But in Things - the composer Alvin Lucier
2012
Line by Line - a film on the composer Ernstalbrecht Stiebler
2014
A Shape of Time - the composer Jo Kondo
2016
To B or to B Flat - the composer Boudewijn Buckinx
2019
Einstein on the Beach
The Metropolitan Opera: Marnie
2018
Choreography for a Camera and Dancers
1968
The Lost Paradise
2015
Fogo Corredor
2025
The Muppets: Classical Chicken
2008
John Adams conducts John Adams