Philip Glass
Birthday: 1937-01-31
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Biography: Philip Morris Glass is an American composer. He is one of the most influential music makers of the late 20th century. His music is also often controversially described as minimal music.
Movies
Patti Smith: Dream of Life
An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of t...
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Classic Albums: Paul Simon - Graceland
Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had been on the cutting-edge of pop music throughout most of the 1960s ...
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Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western clas...
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New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971
With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus,...
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Hands Scraping
In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel...
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A Brief History of Errol Morris
This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent...
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Four American Composers: Philip Glass
A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway about Phillip G...
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The Kitchen Presents: Two Moon July
Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, perf...
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The Source
Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac's meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to th...
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Einstein on the Beach: The Changing Image of Opera
The creative processes of avant-garde composer Philip Glass and progressive director/designer Robert...
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What Difference Does It Make?
A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring....
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The Best of Secter & the Rest of Secter
Tells the story of David Secter, Canada's first acclaimed indie filmmaker....
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Robert Wilson: The Beauty of the Mysterious
We look back at more than half a century of mysterious artistic creation while trying to crack a uni...
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A Place Called Music
The musical journey between Mexican Wixárika musician Daniel Medina and American composer Philip Gla...
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The Making of "Once Within a Time"
A documentary about the production of Godfrey Reggio's "Once Within a Time"....
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Richard Serra: Man of Steel
Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator...
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The Truman Show
An insurance salesman begins to suspect that his whole life is actually some sort of reality TV show...
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Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aeth...
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The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch
A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch....
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365 Day Project
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calenda...
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Philip Glass: Looking Glass
This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Phi...
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwr...
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What Maisie Knew
The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage th...
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Essence of Life
Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi."...
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Impact of Progress
Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqo...
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Perfect Moment
In this documentary, artist-filmmaker Nicholas Hondrogen asks people to describe memorable moments o...
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In the Ocean
A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott C...
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Bye Bye Kipling
This ambitious live satellite link-up of Japan, Korea and the United States features interviews with...
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Trophy
This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conserv...
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Music
The story of music and the music industry told through interviews with musicians, composers and prod...
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Kiki and Herb Reloaded
The outrageous drag-cabaret duo Kiki and Herb share their past, present and future as they tour the ...
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The Last Dalai Lama?
In his 1992 documentary "Compassion in Exile", filmmaker Mickey Lemle created a groundbreaking portr...
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The Harry Smith Project Live
Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccent...
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A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnat...
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Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt t...
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Lucinda Childs' Dance
A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a c...
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Paul Simon: Under African Skies
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album...
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Making Mishima
In this archival documentary, cinematographer John Bailey, production designer Eiko Ishioka, and com...
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War and the Weather
Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to ...
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The Viking of Sixth Avenue
A documentary about the colorful life, times and music of a true original, Louis “Moondog” Hardin, a...
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John Cage: Man and Myth
An experimental documentary that looks at its subject John Cage through the eyes of contemporary Ava...
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos ...
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