Morton Feldman

A film by students of the Film Workshop of San Francisco Art & Film, under the direction of Ronald Chase. A boy tries to comfort a woman who has just been dumped, but balks when he learns about the circumstances of the relationship.

To examine the image of this face, this look, there are fragments of raw stories, mineral lights, snatches of an endless dream ... The insistence clashes, until abstraction , To the decomposed time, to its chaos with the gleams of stone. From that face coming back, nothing was said. The look can not be deciphered. The illusion, even to the darkness, remains mute. Signs of an absent song.

At Any Place 1, 1975, film, 16 min, color. Casted over the sky, images of people are suggested as shapes of clouds

Artist Jackson Pollock is seen at work painting a large canvas, then later on painting on a large sheet of glass.

Morton Feldman’s Darmstadt lecture, held at the 33rd International Summer Courses for New Music in Darmstadt on 24th July 1986.

The expansive length of Feldman’s Trio (1 hr., 45 min., 22 sec.) requires a new approach to listening, which takes scale, the physical experience of sound, and novel uses of musical memory into consideration. With his delicate manipulation of musical materials, Feldman blurs the listener’s sense of time as their musical memory struggles to distinguish between past and present sounds - listeners are free to lose themselves in the beauty of each musical moment. Aki Takahashi, piano; Rohan de Saram, cello; Marc Sabat, violin.