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

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I Am Saying It (1990)

N/A 55 min Movie
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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.

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Cast

John Cage John Cage Self
Merce Cunningham Merce Cunningham Self
Yoko Ono Yoko Ono Self
Laurie Anderson Laurie Anderson Self
Margaret Leng Tan Margaret Leng Tan Herself
Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg Himself
Patricia Denk Powers Patricia Denk Powers Narrator (voice)

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