Philip Glass Movies

Once Within a Time is an anarchic comedy told without words, a sensory feast to be felt through art and music. This multidisciplinary work shows us...

An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

A documentary that explores the challenges that a life in music can bring.

Image and music are intertwined in this third collaboration between director Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass. The film was produced to...

Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project concerts in London, New York and Los Angeles celebrated the eccentric collector genius and his influential...

Wild Combination is a visually absorbing portrait of the seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell....

A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959.

Letters from a distance documents a communication exercise thought out by healthcare workers from a public hospital in Mexico City to help with the...

A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.

This film tells the fascinating story of one of the most critically acclaimed careers in independent documentary film making in recent cinema...

Filmed over the ensuing years after the attack on New York's World Trade Center, this documentary takes a look a the physical and emotional healing...

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in...

Singer-songwriter Paul Simon had been on the cutting-edge of pop music throughout most of the 1960s and the '70s, first as half of the seminal...

A cousin stays overnight at a couple's place as both of her parents are missing. The husband suspects that she is a vampire as he keeps seeing...

A rich American woman and her French husband start a Parisian salon.

This in-depth look into the powerhouse industries of big-game hunting, breeding and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa unravels the complex...

In "Hands Scraping" we see two male pairs of hands, those of Serra and Phil Glass, sweeping up steel filings strewn on the wooden floor with their...

Soundtrack by Philip Glass

Filmmaker Godfrey Reggio and composer Philip Glass discuss their films "Powaqqatsi" (1988) and "Naqoyqatsi" (2002).

In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aether. He called it an Opera (or piece of theater...