Phill Niblock Movies

  • 1988
    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

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    The series of films ‘The Movement of People Working’ portrays human labor in its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91,...

    CHINA '88
  • 1966
    Morning

    Morning

    Morning

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    Morning begins with performers dressing and preparing for their day to the accompaniment of clashing male and female internal monologues, and...

    Morning
  • 1969
    Dog Track

    Dog Track

    Dog Track

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    Dog Track (1969) : For Dogtrack a deeply unsettling, bestiality-themed found text is read aloud with alarming detachment by Barbara Porte while...

    Dog Track
  • 1984
    Brazil 84

    Brazil 84

    Brazil 84

    01984HD

    "In 1984, I returned to Brazil, deciding to travel the coast, closest to the ocean, from Salvador, Bahia, to as far north as I could get in the time...

    Brazil 84
  • 1988
    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    01988HD

    Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985.

    Terrace of Unintelligibility
  • 2014
    Rice & Flowers

    Rice & Flowers

    Rice & Flowers

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    A 46 minute extreme close-up long take of a knife point counting grains of white rice, one by one, on a white surface, to the orchestra piece "One...

    Rice & Flowers
  • 2015
    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

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    A 30 minute extreme close-up long take of the flow of sand trickling from the upper to the lower glass chamber of and hourglass to Phill Niblock's...

    Timepiece/Maize