a John Cage filmography


		a John Cage filmography

John Cage
born 5 September 1912, Los Angeles, CA
died 12 August 1992, New York, NY (stroke)

filmography

2003
• The Balloon | 7 min, animated | directed by Sung Yeon Son | features Sonatas and Interludes

2001
• James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet | 72 min, videotape | conceived and directed by Laura Kuhn | music by Mikel Rouse (composed from Cage's manuscript notes) | features Merce Cunningham as Erik Satie and John Kelly as the Narrator | this is a video of a single performance at UCB's Zellerbach Auditorium of a theatrical realization of Cage's radio play
• Caged Bird | color, digital video, 1.85:1 | directed by Justin Cesarin | scenario by Justin Cesarin | cinematography by Nick Palmer | edited by Harv Daniels | choreography by Heather Capizzi | produced by Monica Raquel Meza | produced by Caesar Pictures and RQL Design | features performances of 4'33" and 0'00"

2000
• Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance | directed by Charles Atlas | featuring Cage and Merce Cunningham

1998
• Modulations | color, sound | directed by Iara Lee | features footage of Cage taken from Dick Fontaine's "Sound?? Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage"
• Sonic Acts: From Stockhausen to Squarepusher | 60 min, videotape, color | Dutch, English, French, German, Japanese | directed by Jacqueline Oskamp and Frank Scheffer | features archival interview footage of Cage | also features interviews with DJ Spooky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Michel Waisvisz

1995
• Nopera | 5 min | directed by Frank Scheffer | features John Cage
• From Zero | 85 min, 16mm, color | Dutch | written and directed by Andrew Culver and Frank Scheffer | cinematography by Joost van Gelder | features a performance of Fourteen by the Ives Ensemble

1994
• HPSCHD | 45 min | directed by Joel Chadabe | documentary of an early 90s Dutch restaging of John Cage and Lejaren Hiller's HPSCHD

1993
• Die Rache der Toten Indianer | 125 min, color, sound | written and directed by Henning Lohner | cinematography by Carlson Van Theodore | edited by Sven Fleck | produced by Henning Lohner and Peter Lohner | features music composed by Cage | other music by Henning Lohner | features Yves Bazillou, Michael Berger, Farid Chahboub, Noam Chomsky, Merce Cunningham, Jacqeline Daubert, René Delesalle, Kelly Ellsworth, William Forsythe, Corinne Fortin, Betty Freeman, Frank O. Gehry, Murray Gell-Mann, Matt Groening, Ben Habdallah, Rutger Hauer, Dennis Hopper, Alison Knowles, Raymond Kurzweil, Edward Lorenz, Benoit Mandelbrot, Yehudi Menuhin, Mohamed Ben Methnic, Marvin Minsky, Heiner Müller, M. Neraqueller, Jean Nouvel, Yoko Ono, Baramouh Parianen, Soopaya Parianen, Tomaso Poggio, René Sancier, Richard Serra, Giorgio Strehler, Claude Trouve, Iannis Xenakis, Frank Zappa, and John Zorn | available through Electronic Arts Intermix | also known as The Revenge of the Dead Indians
• The Misfits: 30 Years of Fluxus | 80 min, videotape, color, sound | directed by Lars Movin | cinematography by Steen Moller Rasmussen, Niels Plenge, and Torben Skjodt | edited by Torben Skjodt | music by Tom Cora | features John Cage, Eric Andersen, Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, Philip Corner, Henry Flynt, Ken Friedman, Geoffrey Hendricks, Jon Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, Jonas Mekas, Larry Miller, Charlotte Moorman, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Ben Patterson, Willem De Ridder, Ben Vautier, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young | produced by Lars Movin and Cinnamon Film for the National Film Board of Denmark | distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix

1992
• Opus 20 Modern Masterworks: John Cage | color | directed by Klaus Lindemann | written by Michael Nupen | edited by Steve Eveleigh | produced by Yehuda Fickler | distributed by RM Associates | narrated by Kerry Shale | features Cage, Hermann Ktetzschmar, Ingo Metzmarcher, and David Tudor | performances by the Ensemble Modern | Hermann Kretzschmar and David Tudor perform Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
• John Cage: 22708 Types: Die Utopie im Niemandsland | 45 min, videotape | written, directed, and produced by Henning Lohner | cinematography by Michael Koltermann and Van Theodore Carlson | edited by Inge Klos and Sven Fleck | music by John Cage | "a very personal picture of John Cage" | features Five and John Cage performing 4'33" on 8 January 1990, during the destruction of a Berlin Wall checkpoint | also known as The Utopia in No-Man's-Land
• One 11 and 103 | 90 min, 35 min, b&w, sound | written and directed by John Cage and Henning Lohner | music by John Cage | cinematography by Van Theodore Carson | edited by Bernadine Colish | produced by Henning Lohner | "One 11 is a film without subject. There is light but no persons, no things, no ideas about repetition and variation. It is meaningless activity which is nonetheless communicative, like light itself, escaping our attention as communication because it has no content to restrict its transforming and informing power. 103 is an orchestral work. It is divided into seventeen parts. The lengths of the seventeen parts are the same for all the strings and the percussion. The woodwinds and the brass follow another plan. The shots of the cameraman still another. Following chance operations, the number of wind instruments changes for each of the seventeen parts." | to be shown with or without 103 | [note: there supposedly exists a documentary by Henning Lohner about the making of this film; might it be "Die Utopie im Niemandsland"?]
• Beach Birds for Camera | 28 min, 35 mm and videotape, color and b&w, sound | directed by Elliot Caplan | cinematography by Mathew Williams | music by John Cage (Four3) | choreography by Merce Cunningham | costumes by Marsha Skinner | features Cage, Cunningham, and the Merce Cunnngham Dance Company: Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Michael Cole, Emma Diamond, Victoria Finlayson, Frédéric Gafner, Alan Good, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Randall Sanderson, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum, Jenifer Weaver | co-produced by Timothy Nelson | produced by the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation | a performance of Beach Birds "adapted for the screen using a variety of locations" | awards | notes on the origin
• Film über Nichts | color | German | written and directed by Michael Muschner | based on Cage's text score Lecture on Nothing | German translation by Ernst Jandl | starring Dieter Schnebel | produced by Michael Muschner | cinematography Reiner Jonas | edited by Klaus Dörries | produced by TIGERFILM Produktionsgesellschaft mbH
• The Chaotic Universe | conceived by Louwrien Wijers | directed and edited by Maxine Harris | produced by Sheldon Rochlin and Louwrien Wijers | distributed by Asset Foundation (Amsterdam) and Mystic Fire Video (New York)
• Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy | conceived by Louwrien Wijers | directed and edited by Maxine Harris | produced by Sheldon Rochlin and Louwrien Wijers | distributed by Asset Foundation and Mystic Fire Video

1991
• Peefeeyatko | 60 min | directed and written by Henning Lohner | cinematography by Carlson Van Theodore | edited by Sven Fleck | original music by Frank Zappa | produced by Henning Lohner and Frank Zappa | features John Cage, Pierre Boulez, Matt Groening, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ray Wallis, Iannis Xenakis, Diva Zappa, and Frank Zappa
• Cage/Cunningham: A Film | 95 min, 16mm, 1.37:1, b&w/color, sound | directed and edited by Elliot Caplan | written by David Vaughan | cinematography by Elliot Caplan and Matthew Williams | music by composed John Cage | choreography by Merce Cunningham | features Cage, Bonnie Bird, Carolyn Brown, Remy Charlip, Merce Cunningham, Edwin Denby, Doris Dennison, Viola Farber, Jasper Johns, Irwin Kremen, Alvin Lucier, Guy Michel, Gordon Mumma, Rudolf Nureyev, Nam June Paik, Marianne Preger-Simon, Robert Rauschenberg, M.C. Richards, Jean Rigg, Frank Stella, Virgil Thomson, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, and LaMonte Young | contains footage of a filmed version of Four Walls | produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation in association with La Sept | distributed by the Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.

1990
• John Cage New River Watercolors | 14 min | directed by Ray Kass | documents Cage's work as a painter at the Mountain Lake Workshop in Virginia
• John Cage: Man and Myth | videotape | directed by Mitch Corber | features interviews with Cage | also features interviews with David Antin, Glenn Branca, Ivor Darreg, Mary Feinsinger, Peter Frank, Jonathan Glasier, Philip Glass, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson MacLow, Charlie Morrow, Marjorie Perloff, Joshua Pierce, Johnny Reinhard, Stuart Sherman, and Grete Sultan | features music by John Cage and Stuart Sherman | distributed by Thin Air Video
• I have nothing to say and I am saying it | 55 min, videotape, color, sound | directed by Allan Miller and Vivian Perlis | edited by Mark Brownstone | music by John Cage | choreography by Merce Cunningham | narrated by Patricia Denk Powers | features interviews with Cage, Laurie Anderson, Leo Castelli, Merce Cunningham, Richard Kostelanetz, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, John Rockwell, and David Tudor | features dance performances by Cunningham, Karole Armitage, Ellen Cornfield, Morgan Grey, Meg Harper, Chris Komar, Julie Roess-Smith | David Tudor performs 4'33" | features performances of Minutiae and Chesspiece | features excerpts from Dreams That Money Can Buy and 26'1.1499" For A String Player | produced by Allan Miller and Vivian Perlis (RM Associates) for the PBS series American Masters | also known as John Cage
• Ryoanji | 20 min, 16mm, color | directed by Lawrence F. Brose | music composed by John Cage and performed by the Buffalo New Music Ensemble

1989
• Mr. Hoover and I | 90 min, 35mm, color and b&w, sound | directed by Emile de Antonio and Vincent Hanlon | cinematography by Matt Mindlin, William Rexer, and Morgan Wesson | edited by George Spyros | starring John Cage, Emile de Antonio, and Nancy de Antonio | produced by Emile de Antonio and Channel Four Films | distributed by Turin Films
• Changing Steps | 39 min, videotape, color/b&w | directed by Elliot Caplan and Merce Cunningham | cinematography by Mathew Williams | edited by Elliot Caplan | choreography by Merce Cunningham | music by John Cage (Cartridge Music, 1960) | designed by Elliot Caplan | costumes by Mark Lancaster and Suzanne Gallo | narrated by Robert Redford | features the Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Helen Barrow, Kimberly Bartosik, Emma Diamond, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Larissa McGoldrick, Dennis O'Connor, Kristy Santimyer, Robert Swinston, Carol Teitelbaum, Robert Wood | produced by Timothy J. Nelson | produced by the Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (New York), LaSEPT, Video West, and the Sundance Institute | distributed by the Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
• Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint | 56 min, videotape, color, sound | produced and directed by Rick Tejada-Flores | music by Peter Barshay | features John Cage, Melvyn Bragg, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella | narrated by Polly Adams | produced by WHYY, Inc. in association with WNET/New York | produced by RM Associates for the PBS series American Masters | distributed by RM Associates

1988
• ChessFilmNoise | 18 min | directed by John Cage and Frank Scheffer | features music composed by John Cage using the I Ching | documentary of chess match between Cage and Stephen Lowy | produced by Frank Scheffer
• Études Solares | 24 min | directed by Frank Scheffer | features John Cage's Études Boreales

1987
• The Collaborators: Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg | 56 min, videotape, color | moderated by David Vaughan | features John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg | part one features excerpts from Travelogue, Nocturnes, Minutiae, and Antic Meet | part two features a full performance of Coast Zone | dancers: Karole Armitage, Karen Attix, Helen Barrow, Louise Burns, Ellen Cornfield, Susan Emery, Morgan Ensminger, Karen Fink, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Meg Harper, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Kovich, Judy Lazaroff, Joseph Lennon, Charles Moulton, Susan Quinn, Rob Remley, Julie Roess-Smith, and Robert Swinston | produced by David Vaughan and the Cunningham Dance Foundation for KETC Public Television (Saint Louis, MO) | also known as Coast Zone
• Wagner's Ring | 4 min | directed by Frank Scheffer | conceived by John Cage
• Stoperas I & II | 3 min | directed by Frank Scheffer | condenses Cage's operas Europeras I & II
• Time is Music | 30 min | directed by Frank Scheffer

1986
• Points in space | 56 min, videotape, color, sound | a dance composed for video | directed by Merce Cunningham and Elliot Caplan | music by John Cage: Voiceless Essay (origin) | choreographed by Merce Cunningham | dancers: Helen Barrow, Merce Cunningham, Victoria Finlayson, Alan Good, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, David Kulick, Patricia Lent, Karen Radford, Rob Remley, Kristy Santimyer, Kevin Schroder, Robert Swinston, Megan Walker, Susan Quinn Young | sets by Bill Anastasi | costumes by Dove Bradshaw | part one documents the composition of Points in Space; part 2 features its performance | produced by Bob Lockyer, the Cunningham Dance Foundation, and Kultur Films Inc. for BBC-TV
• An hour with John Cage | directed by Rick Stafford | documentary of Cage composing and performing

1985
• John Cage Performs James Joyce | 15 min, videotape, color, sound | in English & Japanese | directed by Takahiko Iimura
• John Cage: Mushrooms et Variationes | 75 min | Cage reads "Mushrooms et Variationes" at St. Georg Church at the exhibition "Raum, Zeit, Stille," and is also interviewed.

???
• For the Third Time | videotape, color, sound | made for public access TV | Cage speaks with Richard Kostelanetz (who has laryngitis) about the techniques he used in "Writing Through Finnegans Wake" (1977) and "Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake" (1977)

1983
• Four American Composers: John Cage | 60 min, color | written and directed by Peter Greenaway | cinematography by Curtis Clark | edited by John Wilson | musical advisor: Michael Nyman | produced by Revel Guest and Trans Atlantic Films | features excerpts from Branches, Double Music, Indeterminacy, Inlets, Music for Marcel Duchamp, Roaratorio: An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake, and Song Books | one of a four part series of documentaries on contemporary US musicians; other episodes focus on Robert Ashley, Philip Glass, and Meredith Monk
• Sometimes It Works, Sometimes It Doesn't | 63 min, color | directed by Chris Dercon and Stefaan Decostere | part one features interviews with John Cage and Merce Cunningham, as well as: excerpts from a Harvard Square performance of 4'33" by John Cage, rehearsals of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and Cunningham's solo videodance Blue Studio: Five Segments | part two features the filmdance Channels/Inserts | dancers: Karole Armitage, Louise Burns, Ellen Cornfield, Susan Emery, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Judy Lazaroff, Joseph Lennon, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, and Megan Walker | produced by Belgian Radio & Television

1982
• Poetry in Motion | 91 min, 16mm, color | directed by Ron Mann | cinematography by Robert Fresco | edited by Peter Wintonick | features performances by Helen Adam, Miguel Alagarin, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, John Cage, Jim Carroll, Jayne Cortez, Robert Creeley, Christopher Dewdney, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Michael McClure, Ted Milton, Michael Ondaatje, Ed Sanders, Gary Snyder, Tom Waits, and Anne Waldman | produced by Sphinx Productions | distributed by International Telefilm Enterprises
• Merce Cunningham & Company | 45 min, color | English and French | directed by Benoit Jacquot | choreography by Merce Cunningham | features interviews with Cunningham in which he discusses his use of the I Ching and his collaborations with John Cage | also features dance excerpts from Trails, Scramble, Aeon, Quartet, Suite For Five, Roadrunners, and Fractions | dancers: Louise Burns, Ellen Cornfield, Merce Cunningham, Susan Emery, Lise Friedman, Alan Good, Neil Greenberg, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Judy Lazaroff, Joseph Lennon, Susan Quinn, Rob Remley, Robert Swinston, and Megan Walker | produced by L'Institut National de L'Audiovisuel (INA) in association with the Cunningham Dance Foundation
• A Tribute to Nam June Paik: Video Portrait of a Man Who Won't Sit Still | 28 min, color, sound | directed by Kit Fitzgerald and John Sanborn | edited by John Zieman | music by Peter Gordon | includes the video artwork "Tribute To Paik" by Shalom Gorewitk | featuring Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman, John Cage, Marcel Duchamp, Howard Wise, and John Hanhardt | commentary by Russell Connor | available through Electronic Arts Intermix

1980
• 30 Second Video Portrait: John Cage | directed by and copyright Joan Logue

1978
• Video Portrait John Cage "Listening" | 15 min | directed by and copyright Joan Logue | Limited Edition
• Video Portrait: John Cage "Silence" | 20 min | directed by and copyright Joan Logue | Limited Edition | available through Electronic Arts Intermix
• 36 mesostics for: re and re Duchamp | directed by Steve Lawrence | Cage reads from his mesostics
• Merce by Merce by Paik | 30 min, color, sound | directed by Nam June Paik, Merce Cunningham, Shigeko Kubota, and Charles Atlas | music by John Cage, David Held, and Earl Howard | part one (Blue Studio, 1976) features manipulated video footage of a Cunningham dance performance | part two (Merce and Marcel) features Russell Connor's 1964 interview with Marcel Duchamp as well as excerpts from a performance of Merce Cunningham's Septet (Helsinki, 1964) | produced at WNET/TV Lab

1977
• 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs | 120 min | directed by Roberta Friedman, Don Gillespie, and Gene Caprioglio | camerawork by Carl Teitelbaum, Arlene Schloss and Louis D'Agostino | supervised by Andrew Culver | a chance-determined film based on Cage's text-score 49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs, filmed in the locations specified by that score | sponsored by Black Maria Inc., with funding from Thomas Buckner and The Foundation for the Contemporary Performance Arts
• Event for Television | 56 min, color, sound | directed by Merrill Brockway | music by John Cage: Branches (For Amplified Plant Music) | music by David Tudor: Rainforest (An Electronic Ecology ) | choreography by Merce Cunningham: Antic Meet, Scramble, Septet, Solo, Sounddance, Minutiae, RainForest (performed in its entirety), and Video Triangle, created for the program | dancers: Karole Armitage, Karen Attix, Ellen Cornfield, Merce Cunningham, Morgan Ensminger, Meg Harper, Catherine Kerr, Chris Komar, Robert Kovich, Charles Moulton, Julie Roess-Smith | produced by Emile Ardolino for Public Television's Dance In America series | origin
• C'est la vie Rrose | 84 min, 35mm, color, sound | German | directed by Hans-Christof Stenzel | written by Jörg Fauser and Hans-Christof Stenzel | cinematography by Lothar E. Stickelbrucks | edited by Rosemarie Stenzel-Quast | original music by Mary Jane Collins, Uwe Czybulka, and Janet Maillard | non-original music by Charles Yves | Cage appears as a Schachspieler (chess player) | also starring Jean Halbert, Kurt Kalb, Y Sa Lo, and Hannah Wilke | produced by Rosemarie Stenzel-Quast | produced by Distelfilm and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) | also known as A Rose: That's What Life Is All About

1975
• Strange music of Nam June Paik | 27 min, videotape, color, sound | directed by John Musilli | features music composed and performed by John Cage | commentary by Russell Connor | features Charlotte Moorman (the Topless Cellist) and the TV Bra | produced by Fred Barzyk and Camera Three | distributed by Creative Arts Television | available through Electronic Arts Intermix
• Lecture on the weather | multi-media work with a film by Luis Frangella

1973
• A Tribute to John Cage | re-edited 1976 | 29 min, videotape, color, sound | directed by Nam June Paik | Cage performs 4'33" in Harvard Square and is seen composing using the I Ching | also features Marianne Amacher, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, Charlotte Moorman, Pulsa, Richard Teitelbaum, and David Tudor | hosted by Russell Connor | features excerpts from Paik's Zen for TV as well as performances and appearances by Marianne Amacher, David Behrman, Cathy Berberian, Jackie Cassen, Francis Lee, Alvin Lucier, David Rosenboom, Alfons Schilling, Richard Teitelbaum, David Tudor, Stan Vanderbeek, and Jud Yalkut | produced by the New Television Workshop and the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen for WGBH-TV | available through Electronic Arts Intermix
• John Cage Mushroom Hunting in Stony Point | 7 min, 16mm, color, silent | directed by Jud Yalkut | features John Cage mushroom hunting, visiting his home and friends, and buying fruits and vegetables at a farm market | also features Shari Dienes, Jeni Engel, Shalom Gurewitz, Shigeko Kubota, and Nam June Paik
• 26'1.1499" For A String Player | 42 min, videotape, color, sound | directed by Jud Yalkut | a video realization of Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik's concert performance of John Cage's composition 26'1.1499" For String Player | available through Electronic Arts Intermix
• Global Groove | 29 min, color, sound | directed by Nam June Paik, John Godfrey, and Merrily Mossman | narrated by Russell Connor | features excerpts of A Tribute to John Cage in which Cage reads two stories from Indeterminacy: the one about the anechoic chamber, and the one about when he doesn't take off his jacket at the dentist's because has a hole in his shirt | also features Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman performing the TV Bra for Living Sculpture, and footage directed by Robert Breer and Jud Yalkut | produced by the TV Lab at WNET/Thirteen | available through the DIA Center

1972
• Marcel Duchamp and John Cage | 28 min 30 sec, b&w, sound | directed by Shigeko Kubota | musical chessboard designed by Lowell Cross | documentation of a chess match between Marcel Duchamp and John Cage, played on March 5, 1968 in the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto—also the premiere of Cage's composition Reunion | with the assistance of Teeny Duchamp, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma and David Behrman | available through Electronic Arts Intermix

1971
• Catch 44 | 31 min, videotape, color, sound | directed by David Atwood | produced by Henry Becton and Nam June Paik with WGBH | Cage appears on the program "WGBX: A Telecast for Composers and Technicians" | available through Electronic Arts Intermix

1969
• Aspects of a New Consciousness, Dialogue III | 30 min, color, sound | produced and directed by Merrill Brockway for the CBS television program Camera Three | hosted by James Macandrew | John Cage is interviewed by Jack Kroll | features the compositions Variations II and Williams Mix | produced by Creative Arts Television | available through Electronic Arts Intermix

1968
• Poemfield No. 7 (Computer Art Series No. 7) | 4 min, 16mm, color, sound | directed by Stan Vanderbeek | a computer generated, text-based film | music by John Cage | programmed by Ken Knowlton | b&w computer graphics colorized by Brown and Olvey | distributed by the New York Filmmakers Cooperative
• Silent Sonata | 10 min, 16 mm, 1.37:1, color, sound | written, directed, and produced by Akira Arita and Marcus Reichert (Arita Reichert Collaborative) | edited by Marcus Reichert | features music composed by Cage | starring Sally MacLeod as The Subject | distributed by Filmworks International Ltd. and the Rhode Island School of Design

1967
• Sound?? Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage | 27 min, b&w, sound | directed by Dick Fontaine | Cage prepares a work for musical bicycle with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham at the Seville Theatre in London | produced by Rhapsody Films

1966
• Variations V | 50 min, 16mm | directed by Gordon Mumma and Stan Vanderbeek | a film with dance and electronic imagery | music by John Cage | performed by Cage, Malcolm Goldstein, Gordon Mumma, James Tenney, and David Tudor | choreographed by Merce Cunningham | performed by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company | Robert Moog built special antennas—actually modified theremins—that were positioned throughout the stage to trigger musical events when dancers passed by | features work by Nam June Paik | produced by NDR TV, Hamburg
• John Cage | 56 min, 16mm, 1.37:1, b&w | German | directed by Klaus Wildenhahn | cinematography by Rudolf Körösi | edited by Ria Uplegger | featuring Cage, Merce Cunningham, Joan Miró, and the Cunningham dance troupe during a tour through southern France | distributed by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)

1960
• I've Got a Secret | 30 min | Cage appeared as a contestant on a January episode of the television program, which also featured Zsa Zsa Gabor

1955
• In Between | 10 min, 16mm, 1.37:1, color, sound | directed by Stan Brakhage | features excerpts from Sonatas for Prepared Piano | starring Jess Collins and Robert Duncan | distributed by Canyon Cinema

1950
• Works of Calder | 20 min, color | directed by Herbert Matter | music by John Cage: "it includes sounds of mobiles bumping into one another, recorded in Alexander Calder's studio" | narrated by Burgess Meredith | features Alexander Calder | produced by Burgess Meredith and Moma, New York

1948
• Horror Dream | features original music by John Cage

1947
• Dreams That Money Can Buy | 99 min, color, sound | directed and written by Hans Richter and Man Ray ("Ruth Roses and Revolvers") | cinematography by Arnold Eagle | John Cage composed the music for the "Discs" segment | other music by Louis Applebaum, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, and Darius Milhaud | starring, among others, Max Ernst | based in part on works by Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, and Fernand Léger | produced by Kenneth MacPherson | distributed by Films International of America | Hans Richter was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 1947 Venice Film Festival

1944
• At Land | 15 min, 16mm, 1:37:1, b&w, silent | directed by Maya Deren | cinematography by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid | Cage appears briefly as an actor | also features Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid, Leo Lerman, Richard Hunter, Schuyler Watts, Paquita Anderson, Alvin Lustig, Philip Lamantia, Xenia Cage, Dante, Pablo Mendez, Marie Menkin, and Parker Tyler

1937
• An Optical Poem | 6 min, 35mm, 1.37:1, color, sound | directed by Oskar Fischinger | Cage served as an assistant (uncredited)

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