Philip Glass Movies
- 2003
Wildfire
Wildfire02003HD
Female dancers “clothed” in electronically generated flaming colors reincarnate Thomas Edison’s 1894 hand-tinted film...
- 2021
In the Penal Colony
In the Penal Colony02021HD
Based on a story by Franz Kafka, this Philip Glass opera is set at the turn of the 20th century on a remote island where a high-ranking visitor...
- 1994
La mort de Molière
La mort de Molière01994HD
A collaboration in which Robert Wilson and Heiner Müller let Molière die, imagine his death in tableaux with text passages recited by...
- 1989
Continuum: Parts 1 & 2
Continuum: Parts 1 & 201989HD
Abstract video art with music composed by Philip Glass. Music by the Kronos String Quartet.
- 1970
Isy Boukir
Isy Boukir01970HD
Nancy Graves statement, 1971: "Izy Boukir contains footage filmed in the Sahara during eighteen days. I wanted to extend sequences [from earlier...
- 2002
Essence of Life
Essence of Life72002HD
Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass talk about their 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi."
- 2011
They Were There
They Were There5.22011HD
What does it mean to be an IBMer? Every employee experiences the company in different ways, but the global impact IBM has made on business and...
- 1970
Marco
Marco01970HD
Disbelief, shock, hostility and superstition confronted the wife of one of the filmmakers when she decided to give birth without pain medication...
- 1975
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew51975HD
The film is about looking. I bet that slight variations of few recurrent elements would encourage the viewer to free associate and to fantasize a...
- 2003
Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress
Powaqqatsi: Impact of Progress02003HD
A short about the making of Powaqqatsi
- 2004
The Origins of AIDS
The Origins of AIDS72004HD
While AIDS may be one of the most feared diseases of modern times, there is still a degree of scientific debate over the subject of just how the...
- 2017
The Juniper Tree
The Juniper Tree02017HD
This take on the famously dark Brothers Grimm fairy tale tells of a Wicked Stepmother who murders her stepson and serves him up in a stew to his...
- 1980
Geometry of Circles
Geometry of Circles101980HD
A short animated film consisting of the movement of six circles (each with a different colour of the rainbow) that are formed by and split up into...
- 2002
The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch
The Outsider: The Story of Harry Partch02002HD
A documentary about avant-garde composer Harry Partch.
- 2016
Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos
Glass - Double Concerto for Two Pianos02016HD
As part of a new collaboration with the famous composer Philip Glass, French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque perform the European premiere...
- 2021
War and the Weather
War and the Weather02021HD
Artist Enid Baxter Ryce created an experimental documentary with a musical score by Philip Glass to portray, in moving images, the history of...
- 2011
Lucinda Childs' Dance
Lucinda Childs' Dance02011HD
A documentary about the American postmodern dancer and choreographer Lucinda Childs. For Dance, a choreography from '79 set to the music of Philip...
- 2002
Impact of Progress
Impact of Progress5.52002HD
Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002).
- 2020
Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective
Philip Glass and The Philip Glass Ensemble: Retrospective02020HD
Watch Philip Glass and the Philip Glass Ensemble perform at the Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur. An evening of Glass's seminal works composed...
- 1989
Continuum: 1. Initiation
Continuum: 1. Initiation01989HD
Part one of the two part abstract video art-piece, with music composed by Philip Glass and performed by the Kronos String Quartet.