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Cage/Cunningham

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This film documents the fifty-year collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring joint endeavors, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in the art, literary, dance and music worlds. Filmmaker Elliot Caplan combines eight years of world tour footage, archival material dating back to the beginning of their careers and interviews with principal figures involved in the Cage/Cunningham collaboration. Music used includes excerpts of: John Cage "Concert for Piano and Orchestra" John Cage "Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music Electronic Version" John Cage "Music for Piano 4-84" Conlon Nancarrow "Rhythm Studies #1, 2, 4, 5, 6 for Player Piano" Christian Wolff "Suite" Christian Wolff "For 1, 2, or 3 People" John Cage "Sculptures Musicales" John Cage "Four Walls" Gordon Mumma "Mesa" David Tudor "Fragments" Bo Nilsson "Rörelser, Slagfigurer, Kvantiteter" Toshi Ichiyanagi "Sapporo" Toshi Ichiyanagi "Activities For Orchestra" David Tudor "Weatherings" David Behrman "…for nearly an hour…" David Tudor "Rainforest" John Cage "Roaratorio" Morton Feldman "Ixion" Erik Satie "Trois morceaux en forme de poire" John Cage "Totem Ancestor" James Joyce reading Finnegans Wake John Cage "Imaginary Landscape No. 1" John Cage "Suite for Toy Piano" John Cage "Credo In Us" John Cage "Winter Music" John Cage "Bacchanale" John Cage "Sonatas and Interludes" John Cage "Cheap Imitation" John Cage "Variations V" Takehisa Kosugi, Rob Miller, Michael Pugliese, David Tudor "Event Music" John Cage "Stories from Lecture on Indeterminacy" John Cage "Music for Marcel Duchamp" John Cage "She Is Asleep" Total time: 95:00