Robert Ashley Movies

  • 1984
    Perfect Lives

    Perfect Lives

    Perfect Lives

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    Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing...

    Perfect Lives
  • 1983
    Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

    Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

    Four American Composers: Robert Ashley

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    A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

    Four American Composers: Robert Ashley
  • 1984
    Atalanta Strategy

    Atalanta Strategy

    Atalanta Strategy

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    The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

    Atalanta Strategy
  • 1974
    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley

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    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...

    Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
  • 1983
    The Commission

    The Commission

    The Commission

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    This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

    The Commission
  • 1963
    The House

    The House

    The House

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    A girl wanders through an abandoned farmhouse; doors open and close of themselves; when the girl finds a mark over a lipstick circle she had made on...

    The House
  • 2019
    Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

    Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

    Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)

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    A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto,...

    Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)
  • 1981
    Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

    Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

    Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons

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    Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented...

    Music Word Fire And I Would Do It Again (Coo-Coo): The Lessons
  • 1970
    She Was A Visitor

    She Was A Visitor

    She Was A Visitor

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    Originally a vocal performance on the album Automatic Writing.

    She Was A Visitor