PHILIP GLASS

“Philip Glass is simply amazing. He has created a musical language that is at once complex, possessed of pure simplicity. In being willing to journey into the vivid unknown, his compositions reveal a sensitivity that is capable of touching those that can hear. His acoustic universe allows the listener the opportunity to deeply feel the vibration of sound performed; in cinema remarkably, the audience can see the music.”
Godfrey Reggio, Film Director

Created especially for Philip on Film, this event embraces a format that is enjoying an unprecedented surge in popularity by filmmakers and film-goers young and old. Shorts is an evening full of wild possibilities, the potential of diversity, collision and discovery. In addition to the première of two live concert screenings of Evidence and Anima Mundi by Godfrey Reggio, Philip Glass has invited Atom Egoyan, Peter Greenway, Shirin Neshat and
Michal Rovner to create silent short films for which he will write new musical scores to be performed live by the Philip Glass Ensemble.

These four international collaborators, widely recognized as pioneers in the worlds of independent film, video, and visual art, were selected by Philip Glass in a unique reversal of the typically director-driven process of choosing music for a film:

Peter Greenway The Man in The Bath (2001) Shirin Neshat Passage (2001)
Atom Egoyan Diaspora (2001)
Godfrey Reggio Evidence (1995)
Anima Mundi (1992)
Michal Rovner Notes (2001)

PRODUCTION DATES
World Première
New York, USA, Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Festival, 26 – 27 July 2001
Valencia, Spain, CAC Museo de la Ciencia, Festival Eclectic, 28 – 30 June 2002 (Koyaanisqatsi, Shorts, Dracula)
Siracusa, Italy, Amphitheatre, Festival di Ortigia, 4 – 6 July 2002 (Shorts)
Barcelona, Spain, Teatre Lliure, Festival GREC
10 July 2002 (Shorts)
Bilbao, Spain, Teatro Arriaga
12 July 2002 (Shorts)
Naples, Italy, Amphitheatre Flavio Pozzuoli, 22 -23 July 2002 (Koyaanoisqatsi, Shorts)