Philip Glass Movies
- 2008
Objects and Memory
Objects and Memory02008HD
Using stories of items recovered or offered after 9/11 and other tragedies, this film explores the human impulse to create community and reestablish...
- 2015
The Viking of Sixth Avenue
The Viking of Sixth Avenue02015HD
A documentary about the colorful life, times and music of a true original, Louis “Moondog” Hardin, an eccentric blind musician and...
- 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...
- 1999
Pointy Teeth for Pointy People
Pointy Teeth for Pointy People01999HD
A cousin stays overnight at a couple's place as both of her parents are missing. The husband suspects that she is a vampire as he keeps seeing...
- 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...
- 2008
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
Richard Serra: Man of Steel02008HD
Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel...
- 1986
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera01986HD
This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the...
- 1968
Railroaded
Railroaded01968HD
An absurdist comedy short directed and produced by Harrison Engle. Features one of the first film scores by Philip Glass.
- 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.
- 2013
Glass: The Perfect American
Glass: The Perfect American62013HD
The last days of the American icon Walt Disney form a powerful and poignant subject for Philip Glass's latest opera, which was filmed at its first...
- 1971
New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971
New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 197101971HD
With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin...
- 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...
- 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.
- 2017
Crônica da Demolição
Crônica da Demolição62017HD
At the heart of Rio de Janeiro's downtown, an empty square with a dry fountain and an underground parking. There was located the Monroe Palace, that...
- 2007
Animals in Love
Animals in Love6.62007HD
Translated literally as "Animals in Love," the French-language documentary Animaux Amoreux depicts various species of the animal kingdom in courting,...
- 1968
Inquiring Nuns
Inquiring Nuns01968HD
Two nuns travel across Chicago asking people the question, "Are you happy?"
- 1970
NEOOONOWWW
NEOOONOWWW01970HD
Described as a fairy tale for the young and young at heart, focused on the forging of a new culture in a world threatened by ecological collapse and...
- 2005
Philip Glass: Looking Glass
Philip Glass: Looking Glass02005HD
This documentary captures the overflowing energy and activity of one today's greatest composers, Philip Glass, and allows us to follow him from New...
- 2010
Trans-Action
Trans-Action4.22010HD
Trans-Action tells the story of an extraordinary woman. Anna Grodzka who in 2011 became the first transgender person in the Polish government, and...