Steve Reich Trailers
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Steve Reich was born on October 3, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA as Stephen Michael Reich.
Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.
Reich's style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably Different Trains.
Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history".[6] The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has said that Reich "may ... be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer".
Most Popular Steve Reich Trailers
Total trailers found: 31
27 August 1972
Faces pass by in quickly edited, split-screen recordings. A 'structuralist' film in which the film material itself plays an important role.
01 January 1995
Delve into the life story and professional career of musical genius Steve Reich, considered one of the greatest American composers of the 20th century.
01 January 1986
This film consists of five segments which interweave archival footage with interviews to highlight aspects of Miami's history.
01 January 2014
Light Motif is an experimental computer graphics short film. Light Motif explores the possibilities of synergy between image and music in the cinematic tradition of Oskar Fischinger and visual music animation.
01 March 1963
"Dada-inspired performance in which absurd actions take place in an environment of strange symbols and graphic forms.
13 June 2006
Concert video of music by Steve Reich played by Alarm will Sound.
31 December 2000
Peer into the world of contemporary composer John Adams with this documentary that blends performance footage with insightful interviews and commentary from his collaborators and the master himself.
08 October 2010
Featuring unprecedented access to Michael Nyman's working life, this film shows one of the great composers of our time in all his diversity and endless energy.
31 March 1992
A man who leads a lonely existence with his young daughter accidentally gets involved with a robbery before a manhunt ensues.
20 January 2005
A grief-stricken screenwriter unknowingly enters a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband - to chilling results.
27 April 2012
A captivating history of the nation's oldest performing arts center - which largely mirrors the evolution of experimental and progressive performing arts in 20th century America - BAM150 chronicles the vibrant past, present and future of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
12 May 2002
"Three Tales" is a video music work by American composer Steve Reich and video artist Beryl Korot. It is set in three "Acts", each depicting a technological advance of the 20th century and its negative implications on humanity: the dirigible airship Hindenburg and its explosion; the Atom Bomb and its testing on Bikini Atoll; and Dolly the sheep, first successful genetic cloning of a mammal.
13 August 1965
Commissioned by the San Francisco Mime Troupe as a short to be screened during intermission for its rather infamous 1965 Minstrel Show (Civil Rights from the Cracker Barrel), which assaulted racial stereotypes by wildly exaggerating them.
09 September 2001
Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else.
19 November 2009
In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a «normal person» and travel into outer space.
01 January 1974
A mind-blowing film which borders on the structural but which manages to avoid being so. A study of colour, stasis, and different modes of multiple-exposure.
18 September 2014
The American composer Steve Reich joins for this concert the Estonian-American director Kristjan Järvi and the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir to interpret some of his most famous compositions at the Salle Pleyel.
22 February 2011
A student of Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio, musician Steve Reich (born in 1936) quickly developed a style of his own, inspired by Baroque music, Bartók, Webern and Stravinsky, as well as jazz, traditional music (especially African), and Hebrew cantillation.
20 September 2013
A gay cocky young man travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. Out of his element, he finds his lifestyle and notions being picked apart by everyone who crosses his path.
23 September 2021
Something is about to change drastically, and the only thing to do is to witness it.
01 January 2001
A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries.
01 January 1991
Abstract animation assembled from newspapers.
09 June 1987
A profile of composer Steve Reich, a leading creator of stripped-down, "minimal" music. The program explores how Reich's music eventually became accessible to the musical audience at large.
01 January 2015
In our terrestrial view of things, the speed of light seems incredibly fast. But as soon as you view it against the vast distances of the universe, it's unfortunately very slow.
01 January 1969
Experimental film with Gunvor Nelson's daughter Oona. The sound consists of Nelson’s daughter, Oona, repeating the names of the days of the week and of her saying “my name is Oona”.
14 October 2011
Present in nearly all cultures and used for many purposes, drums have unique shapes, sounds, names and accents in each region of the world.
09 March 2002
"Fase" consists of three duets and one solo dance, choreographed to four repetitive compositions by the American minimalist musician, Steve Reich: Piano Phase, Come Out, Violin Phase and Clapping Music.
01 January 2014
Recording of a performance by Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris of the ballet on Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
06 February 2024
For its opening concert, the 2024 Festival Présences pays tribute to Steve Reich. The event features conductor George Jackson, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Synergy Vocals choir and Hae-Sun Kang with Héloïse Werner.
01 January 2024
The Apaches orchestra, dancer Andrea Catozzi and free-runners Johan Tonnoir and Simon Nogueira take over the great nave of the Musée d'Orsay for this edition of Paris Sur Mesure: A place where movement, visual art and contemporary music collide.
01 January 1971
With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus, Morton Subotnik, Phil Corner, Joe Jones, Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Ben Patterson, Wolf Rosenberg In 1971 we produced, in association with West German Television, a documentation on New York’s musical avant-garde.
