Cage/Cunningham documents the fifty year collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring collaboration, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in the art, literary, dance and music worlds.
Filmmaker Elliot Caplan combines eight years of world tour footage, archival material dating back to the beginning of their careers and interviews with principal figures involved in the Cage/Cunningham collaboration. Mr. Caplan’s daily contact with the documentary’s subjects has inspired a revealing and sensitive portrait of two men whose spirit of adventure and iconoclastic thinking have helped to revolutionize life, as well as art in the twentieth century.
Produced by Cunningham Dance Foundation Directed, Photographed and Edited by Elliot Caplan Written by David Vaughn Choreography by Merce Cunningham Music by John Cage.
With Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Carolyn Brown, Viola Farber, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young, Rudolf Nureyev, David Tudor, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Virgil Thomson.
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