Small Steps: Conversations with Pauline Oliveros
‘Through Pauline Oliveros and Deep Listening I finally know what harmony is… It’s about the pleasure of making music.’ (John Cage, 1989)An integral part of OTHER WOMEN: Women in Avant-Garde Music, a documentary project instigated by media artist Andrew Kesin, Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore. Small Steps is a sublimely intimate conversation with Pauline Oliveros – composer, deep listener and sound humanitarian. We follow Kesin’s cameras and sound as they gently digress through Pauline’s home, her secretly bearded past, and a thoughtfully insightful Northampton, Massachusetts concert performance.
Also in this combined programme
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Video Music 2: Electric Current
From Lovid’s hertz-bursts of video feedback to the warm brown feeling of Pawel Wojtasik’s Dark Sun Squeeze, video never sounded quite so good. -
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Re-Visiting “Father” and the Source Family
A family story of communal living, Hollywood Hills health food, and a single-minded devotion to costumes, communal idylls and following things through -
The Fine Art of Goofing Off
Devoted to celebrating pointless activity, Goofing Off dances between the silly and the philosophical with free-associative abandon. -
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Niger: Magic and Ecstasy in the Sahel
A folk cinema celebration of life in the Sahel region of Africa, showcasing many of Niger’s venerable music styles. -
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2005
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 30'
- Medium/Format
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