Videomusicking Al Ándalus
Dario Ranocchiari | 2021
The film tells the story of three bands of various genres (Sufi music, Mediterranean fusion and rap), which accept the challenge of the ethnographer-filmmaker o...
Tap Dancing: History and Performance 1972
Ivan N. Cury | 2007
A history of tap dancing. Demonstration of various tap dance styles by two masters of the art, Ralph Brown and Chuck Green. Routines include single and double t...
The Revenge of the Dead Indians
Henning Lohner | 2008
The Revenge of the Dead Indians (original German title: Die Rache der toten Indianer) is a 1993 documentary film essay directed by Henning Lohner about composer...
Cage/Cunningham
Elliot Caplan | 1991
Cage/Cunningham documents the fifty year collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracin...
Points in Space
Bob Lockye | 1986
Features BBC documentary with interviews by Cunningham, Cage and members of the company, as well as scenes from rehearsals in New York and London. The second ha...
The Making of Points in Space
Bob Lockye | 1986
Features BBC documentary with interviews by Cunningham, Cage and members of the company, as well as scenes from rehearsals in New York and London. The second ha...
And The Moon Dances
Garin Nugroho | 1995
Literally translated, the title means 'The Moon Pierced by Wild Grass,' and the film tells the story of the relationship between an aged traditional song teache...
They Call Her Lady Fingers
Patricia Elser Gillespie | 2003
This documentary traces Hawaii's Jazz scene through the prolific life of Betty Loo Taylor. Could a female Chinese-American pianist really play hot, swinging jaz...
Dances of Life
Catherine Tatge | 2005
For 50,000 years the peoples of the Pacific Islands have expressed and perpetuated their cultural values through dance. This unique form of artistic and histori...
Holo Mai Pele: The Epic Hula Myth
Catherine Tatge | 2004
Holo Mai Pele (Pele Travels) tells the epic saga of the rivalry between Pelehonuamea, goddess of the volcano, and her youngest and favorite sister Hi'iaka. The ...
Pacific Passages
G.B. Hajim, Caroline Yacoe, Wendy Arbeit | 1997
Caroline Yacoe, director of Pacific Passages, has worked for over 28 years filming the Pacific and collecting and curating art from the region. This documentary...
Composing Freedom
Sarah Vasen | 2021
Music is more than just a sequence of sounds reaching our being. It can bring back memories, call up fantasies, dreams, feelings, and emotions. Music can destro...
Inside Africa: South Africa Jazz Scene
Cable News Network (CNN) | 2021
Decades ago many of South Africa's best-known jazz artists left to pursue careers abroad, but a new generation or musicians and fans is hitting all the right no...
A Life in Ten Pictures: Amy Winehouse
Louise Lockwood | 2021
Amy Winehouse's image is known around the world. She was the North London girl with a unique voice and look, who became hugely successful seemingly overnight, a...
A Life in Ten Pictures: Freddie Mercury
Matthew Hill | 2021
Freddie Mercury's image is known around the world. He was one of the most photographed men in history. But could just a handful of photos uncover new truths abo...
A Life in Ten Pictures: John Lennon
Tim Niel | 2021
John Lennon's image is known around the world; he is one of the most famous people on the planet. But can just a handful of photos uncover new truths about some...
Marketplace Africa: Nigeria Music Streaming
Cable News Network (CNN) | 2021
The fast-changing landscape of the music streaming industry and what it means for the creative economy; how digitization is helping African businesses compete o...
May It Fill Your Soul
Timothy Rice | 2021
May It Fill Your Soul is a film about Bulgarian traditional music, about the pain of emigration and the promise of immigration, and about a family with a centur...
Elton John: Uncensored
Gerard Williams | 2020
Sir Elton John talks to Graham Norton, looking back at his extraordinary life, and a career spanning over 50 years.Set in the South of France, this film revisit...
Fukushima Trilogy, Go Up the Mountain
Toko Shiiki | 2020
"Yamakiya Taiko" (Taiko drum group in Fukushima Japan) has encountered a difficulty to continue after the Great East Japan Earthquake. However, the difficulty t...
Fukushima Trilogy, Over The Sky
Toko Shiiki | 2020
A documentary about the power of inspiration as seen through a music teacher, Ms. Abe, and her award-winning junior high school brass band, who live around the ...
An Irish Story: This is My Home
Karl Nickoley | 2020
Pursuing the American Dream in an RV, The Black Donnellys embark on an adventure to set a Guinness World Record, playing 60 shows in all 50 US states in just 35...
No Time for Quiet
Samantha Dinning, Hylton Shaw | 2020
Lucy, Zeiro, Phoebe, Mika and Dakota take part in the GIRLS ROCK! MELBOURNE summer camp, aiming at empowering teenage girls through music. During one week, they...
How the Dallas Street Choir Grants Homeless Residents a Voice
NewsHour Productions | 2020
The mantra of the Dallas Street Choir is “homeless, not voiceless.” Some 2,000 singers have passed through the group in the last five years, seeking support...
Zawose Time
Lwiza Gannibal | 2020
Bagamoyo, Tanzania, 2019. In an isolated village of an East African city on the shores of the Indian Ocean, live the members of the Zawose family. A family of a...
Time to Play
Seojong Stephan Park | 2020
Time to Play tells the story of a few of these incredible artists and the history of buskers performing in the city. The film follows these artists from just be...
Africa Avant Garde: Episode 3
Cable News Network (CNN) | 2019
Some of the continent’s most extraordinary creative minds share their self-shot content and their thoughts with us....
Gone to the Village
Kwasi Ampene, Lester P. Monts | 2019
Gone to the Village is a film about the crucial role of female leaders in the social and political life in Asante culture over the past 500 years. Nana Afia Kob...
Marketplace Africa: Kenya's Electronic Music Industry
Cable News Network (CNN) | 2018
Electronic music in Kenya is getting international attention and creating opportunities; record producer RedOne on how he worked his way from Morocco to the mus...
Toscanini: In His Own Words
Larry Weinstein | 2011
This film is a docufiction on the great Toscanini directed by well-known film-maker Larry Weinstein who pushes the boundaries of conventional documentary storyt...
The Legends of Tap
Brenda Bufalino | 1974
Vintage lecture demonstrations by Charles "Honi" Coles, Charles "Cookie" Cook, and Leslie "Bubba" Gaines....
Dancing, Dancing: Dancing in One World
Mark Obenhaus | 1993
This program was made with dancers from the Pacific Rim Area including the United States (Afro-Americans, American Indians, and Hawaiians), Polynesia, Australia...
Iconic India
CNN | 2018
From movements rooted in the Hindu faith to choreography that blends in outside influences, CNN takes the pulse of India’s dance scene of the street, temple a...
Composed
John Beder | 2017
Through the lens of professional classical musicians, Composed explores the many ways we experience and can address performance anxiety. Faced with the judgment...
Black Ballerina
Frances McElroy | 2016
Black Ballerina is a story of passion, heartbreak and triumph of the human spirit. Set in the overwhelmingly white world of classical dance, it tells the storie...
Beautifully Scary: Contemporary Music in America
Russ Wiltse | 2016
Beautifully Scary explores the landscape of contemporary music in America in the 20th century and beyond. The documentary features generations of composers who ...
Tactum: Elements of Dance
Krzysztof Stasiak | 2015
According to Ayurveda, our life is a dance of the three forces. "Green" Kapha is a combination of the elements of water and earth, 'red' Pitta of fire and water...
Maestro
David Donnelly | 2015
Maestro follows Grammy award-winning conductor Paavo Järvi and an array of brilliant musicians as they perform to sold-out music halls across the world. Travel...
Dmitry Shostakovich: A Man of Many Faces
Reiner Moritz | 2015
Shostakovich is arguably one of the great composers of the 20th Century. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of his death in 1975 we take the opportunity t...
Dancing with the Goddess
Purnima Shah | 2015
An ethnographic film focusing on the performative traditions of Goddess worship in Gujarat, India, with particular attention to the regional variations of the g...
Unruly Mystic, Saint Hildegard: Music
Michael M. Conti | 2014
This program probes why abbess, artist, composer, healer, and visionary Saint Hildegard von Bingen is considered to be the patron saint of creativity and discus...
Casadesus: The Taste of the Others
Claude Couderc | 2014
Under the direction of Jean-Claude Casadesus, the Orchestre National de Lille (ONL) will play Shostakovich's Concerto No. 1 (40') & Prokofiev's Romeo & Juliet S...
To Move is To Be Alive
Judith A. Rubin | 2013
This film is primarily about the professional life and contributions of Penny Parker Lewis, an early dance therapy author and pioneer. One of the highlights is ...
Tap or Die
Jackie Paré | 2013
TAP OR DIE is a feature-length documentary that tells the story of master hoofer Derick Grant. He brought in the funk with Savion Glover and now he’s determin...
Renaud Garcia Fons Beyond the Double Bass
Nicolas Dattilesi | 2013
Renaud Garcia-Fons is one of the greatest double bass virtuosos, mixing influences from classical music to flamenco, jazz & Middle Eastern flavors. Combining th...
The New Great Bolshoi
Reiner Penzholz | 2013
On 28th October 2011, the new Bolshoi theatre in Moscow had its grand opening after long years of renovation. Close-up and with exclusive access, we follow the ...
Double Bass Round Mediterranean
Lucas Mouzas | 2013
Thierry Petit, double bassist in the National Orchestra of Montpellier, decides to set sails around the Mediterranean sea to create a multicultural musical work...
Chopin Saved My Life
James Kent | 2013
This hour-long documentary, directed by BAFTA and Emmy award-winning director James Kent, meets Japanese teenager Momoka and Scottish music student Paul Murray ...
498, 3rd Ave.
Klaus Wildenhahn | 2013
Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance ...
The Six Seasons
Gilles Delmas | 2012
British choreographer Akram Khan, known for his collaborations with Danny Boyle (choreography of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony) & Anish Kapoor, mixe...
History of the Organ: The Modern Age
Nat Lilenstein | 2012
AN EXCITING HISTORY OF THE UNIQUE INSTRUMENT The organ is one of the oldest, most complex and most glorious musical instruments known to men. This four part ser...
History of the Organ: The Golden Age
Nat Lilenstein | 2012
AN EXCITING HISTORY OF THE UNIQUE INSTRUMENT The organ is one of the oldest, most complex and most glorious musical instruments known to men. This four part ser...
History of the Organ: From Sweelinck to Bach
Nat Lilenstein | 2012
AN EXCITING HISTORY OF THE UNIQUE INSTRUMENT The organ is one of the oldest, most complex and most glorious musical instruments known to men. This four part ser...
History of the Organ: Latin Origins
Nat Lilenstein | 2012
AN EXCITING HISTORY OF THE UNIQUE INSTRUMENT The organ is one of the oldest, most complex and most glorious musical instruments known to man. The four-part seri...
A Day in the Life of Patricia Kopatchinskaja
Claus Wischmann | 2012
Native of Moldavia, she is one of the most famous violinists in the world, appearing in many prestigious orchestras....
A Day in the Life of Johannes Moser
Holger Preusse | 2012
Building his reputation on a variety of repertoire, he performed with many of the world's leading orchestras....
A Day in the Life of Francesco Tristano
Friederike Schlumbom | 2012
Graduated of Juilliard school, he is a specialist in Baroque and contemporary music and member of the Aufgang electronic music group....
Stradivari's Heirs
Corinna Engelhardt | 2011
This film is a fascinating journey into the world of the Stradivari violin, known for its incomparable resonance. International scientists, luthiers and musicia...
Not of This World: Murray Perahia
Claus Wischmann, Holger Preusse | 2011
After over thirty years on the concert stage the pianist Murray Perahia has himself become a legend, one of the most sought-after pianists of our time. This fil...
A New Dance for America
Ina Hahn | 2011
A New Dance for America is the story of the life and works of Doris Humphrey, a seminal figure in modern dance. Her importance to the development of a uniquely ...