Marian Zazeela

Marian Zazeela

Born: April 15, 1940
in New York City, New York, USA
Marian Zazeela is a light-artist, designer, painter and musician based in New York City. She was a member of the 1960s New York experimental music collective Theatre of Eternal Music, and is known for her collaborative work with minimalist composer La Monte Young

Movies for Marian Zazeela...

The Velvet Underground
Title: The Velvet Underground
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral history combines exclusive interviews with dazzling archival footage.
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The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights
Title: The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
For those who know the out-of-print Gramavision 5-hour, 5-CD release of the 1981 performance of The Well-Tuned Piano, this Just Dreams 401-minute DVD of the entire 1987 performance is the inevitable complement. The continually expanding composition now includes more musical material than even La Monte Young can play in one setting. Together, the 1981 release and the 1987 video provide a much more comprehensive perspective of the scope and complexity of the work.
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John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
Title: John Cale: An Exploration of His Life & Music
Character: Self
Released: December 18, 1998
Type: Movie
Follows John Cale, a Welsh musician and producer, who founded the legendary 60s and 70s NY rock band - the Velvet Underground, with Lou Reed. Cale delved into other mainstream and experimental music genres as well.
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Title: Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
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Dirt
Title: Dirt
Released: September 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
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The Soap Opera
Title: The Soap Opera
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
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Flaming Creatures
Title: Flaming Creatures
Character: Marian Zazeela
Released: April 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.