John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It

09/18/1990

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0hr 55min

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Documentary

,Music

,TV Movie

STORY

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a great many aspects of Cage's work and thought. His love for mushrooms, his Zen beliefs and use of the I Ching, and basic bio details are all explained intelligently and dynamically. Black Mountain, Buckminster Fuller, Rauschenberg, Duchamp are mentioned. Yoko Ono, John Rockwell, Laurie Anderson, Richard Kostelanetz make appearances. Fascinating performance sequences include Margaret Leng-Tan performing on prepared piano, Merce Cunningham and company, and performances of Credo In Us, Water Music, and Third Construction. Demystifies the man who made music from silence, from all sounds, from life.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • John Cage
  • Merce Cunningham
  • Yoko Ono
  • Laurie Anderson
  • Margaret Leng Tan

    Director

  • Allan Miller

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES