John Cage Movies

Observational documentary about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company rehearsing throughout the summer of 1967 in New York.

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

Avant-garde composer John Cage is famous for his experimental pieces and "chance music" but temporarily branched into video in 1992 with this art...

"Filmic impressions of composer John Cage, mushroom hunting on his home ground of Stony Point, New York; visiting his home for the last time;...

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

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

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

A 1987 short film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Experimental composer John Cage tours Europe with The Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1966.

Performed like a series of vaudeville scenes that overlap, Antic Meet consists of ten playful and comedic numbers. The curtains opened with...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...