The Museum of Modern Art will be hosting the film series Total Cinema of Sight and Sound: Godfrey Reggio and Phillip Glass at The Museum of Modern Art on September 26th through October 4th. In over four decades, filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass have created a series of mesmerizing visual and sonic experiences, each painstakingly crafted to reflect on the interaction between the natural world and human activities. Koyaanisqatsi (1982), the first of their Qatsi trilogy—which also includes Powaqqatsi (1988) and Naqoyqatsi (2002)—received a rapturous response upon its release and became an instant cult classic. Their image- and sound-saturated experimental works form a continuing philosophical rumination on life on earth, and how it is altered by the forces of technological development and global economics. Poetic, meditative, apocalyptic, and intense, these non-narrative experiments embody a formal rigor in style, structure, and tone, at once cerebral and primordial. Working collaboratively, and largely in tandem, throughout the production process, the two have achieved something rare in cinema: a consummate marriage of sight and sound that weighs both aspects equally, a singular brand of total cinema that has expanded the imagination of the film medium. One cannot think of Reggio’s captivating and visionary images without Glass’s spellbinding and ever-shifting sound. This retrospective, which includes all of the features the duo has collaborated on, is organized around a weeklong run of their latest work, Once Within a Time (2022), which is screening in its New York premiere.
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Mars
The Chain Theatre (1/27 - 2/1)
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Two Birds And A Bag Of Bones
The LATEA Theater (1/21 - 1/25) OFF-OFF-BROADWAY PREMIERE
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Lobby Hero
Manes Studio Theatre of Long Island (1/9 - 1/25)
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Brody Went Missing
Caveat (2/1 - 2/1) COMEDY | |
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Empower State of Mind
City Winery NYC (2/2 - 2/2)
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Always Young The Musical
Theater For The New City (1/15 - 2/1) NEW MUSICAL
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Steve Budd: Oy, What They Said About Love
Don't Tell Mama (1/17 - 1/17)
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Broadway Magic Hour
Broadway Comedy Club (1/1 - 6/30)
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The Conductor, Live and LIVESTREAMED!
UCB Theatre (1/25 - 1/25) | |
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Party Girl
The Rat NYC (2/13 - 2/13) | |
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HMS Pinafore
Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College (1/10 - 1/18) | |
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Ivanov
Royal Family Theater (1/29 - 2/14) | |
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Ring of Fire
John W. Engeman Theater (1/30 - 1/30) | |
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