John Cage Movies

The choreographer Merce Cunningham working with the musician John Cage and the painter Robert Rauschenberg.

In the late 1950's, Jasper Johns emerged as force in the American art scene. His richly worked paintings of maps, flags, and targets led the artistic...

Cunningham said of his choreography for "Beach Birds", “It is all based on individual physical phrasing. The dancers don’t have to be...

This film includes important examples of the Robert Rauschenberg's diverse and extraordinary accomplishments, tracing his development from his...

A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries.

Present in nearly all cultures and used for many purposes, drums have unique shapes, sounds, names and accents in each region of the world. Behind...

“Westbeth” was Cunningham’s first video collaboration with Charles Atlas, and the first video project to be made at the Merce...

The film begins with a sun materializing out of the emptiness of space. In the first of three sequences we see various images from nature against...

A choreographic interpretation of a dancer's anxiety before starting her theater routine.

Snow is suspended. It becomes rare. The wonder is in peril. The extraordinary atmosphere which it induces and which suspends the stifled daily life,...

Portrait of Jesse Collins: a daydream nightmare in the surrealist tradition.

Catch 44, co-produced by Nam June Paik, fuses Cage's compositional precepts with the immediacy and real time of video. Cage is seen performing and...

The happening Alla ricerca del silenzio perduto - Cage's Train has lingered in the memory of all the people who took part in it, and the echoes left...

A figure with two wings on a church's roof. An opera is suggested, Madame Butterfly. A silent poem that combines effect and (angelical) truth...

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

In “Everybody’s Cage”, German film artist Sandra Trostel turns John Cage and his approach to art into a tangible fascination,...

Tthis collaborative, crowdsourced performance of John Cage's 4’33” features professionals, amateurs and even digital avatars from around...

In 1971, Margaret Leng Tan was the first woman to earn a Doctorate degree from the Juilliard School. Since then, her five-decade career has made the...

Chessfilmnoise is a experimental film, the first directed by John Cage, produced by Frank Scheffer. From 1982 to 1992 Frank Scheffer worked with John...