This insightful program 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 collaboration, 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/Cunnigham collaboration.
Mr. Caplan's daily contact with the documentary's subjects has inspired a revealing and sensitive portrait of two men whose spirit of adventure and iconoclastic thinking have helped to revolutionize life, as well as art in the twentieth century.
1. Opening
2. John Cage at Home
3. First Cunningham-Cage Collaboration
4. Early Years with Merce Cunningham
5. Cage Reading from Europeras 1&2
6. Four Productions
7. Early Years with John Cage
8. Points in Space
9. Experiments in Sound
10. Sonatas and Interludes
11. Memories and Other Stories
12. Sounds of N.Y.C.
13. The Cage Percussion Group
14. David Tudor, Composer
15. Jasper Johns, Artistic Advisor
16. Rainforest and Events
17. Martha Graham Dance Company
18. John Cage Diary Reading
19. Stage Space and Other Discussions
20. John Cage on Zen Buddhism
21. Summerspace
22. First meeting
23. Septet
24. Credits
