Steve Reich Movies

A gay cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by...

Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.

Recording of a performance by Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris of the ballet on Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, choreographed by...

A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.

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...

Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and...

Commissioned by the San Francisco Mime Troupe as a short to be screened during intermission for its rather infamous 1965 Minstrel Show (Civil Rights...

Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and...

Concert video of music by Steve Reich played by Alarm will Sound.

A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing...

In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a «normal person» and travel into outer...

In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe,...

Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role. Grain,...

A student of Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio, musician Steve Reich (born in 1936) quickly developed a style of his own, inspired by Baroque music,...

"Dada-inspired performance in which absurd actions take place in an environment of strange symbols and graphic forms." -Mark Webber. Design by...

This film consists of five segments which interweave archival footage with interviews to highlight aspects of Miami's history. The segments are: On...

Light Motif is an experimental computer graphics short film. Light Motif explores the possibilities of synergy between image and music in the...

A man who leads a lonely existence with his young daughter accidentally gets involved with a robbery before a manhunt ensues.

A mind-blowing film which borders on the structural but which manages to avoid being so. A study of colour, stasis, and different modes of...

A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became...