Movies: William Basinski
- 2019
Other Music (2019)
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A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village....
- 2021
Faya Dayi (2021)
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A spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims chewed for centuries for religious meditations – and Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop today. A tapestry of intimate stories offers a window into ...
- 2017
Midwinter Hue (2017)
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A man steadily bashes through the snow. He disappears and the trees, covered in white, shift and show a beautiful array of hidden colors. A poetic, meditative short film about letting go of the past and embracing the unknown future....
- 2021
Disintegration Loops (2021)
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As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 looms near, William Basinski contemplates the enduring legacy of 'The Disintegration Loops' (his elegy to the 2001 Attacks), while quarantined in the midst of COVID-19....
- 2004
Disintegration Loop 1.1 (2004)
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Disintegration Loop 1.1 consists of one static shot of lower Manhattan billowing smoke during the last hour of daylight on September 11th, 2001, set to the decaying pastoral tape loop Basinski had recorded in August, 2001. Shot from Basinski's roof i...
- 2003
Melancholia (2003)
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A short film by James Elaine and William Basinski....
- 2025
Later in the Clearing (2025)
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In a small Hungarian town painter Péter Molnár leads filmmaker Márton Tarkövi on a journey through meadows, clearings and Molnár’s drawings. The viewer joins them, as they discuss art, time and life itself....
- 2022
Iceland Celeste (2022)
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Why have an ugly black mirror in your living room when you could have an ambient winter wonderland this holiday season? Put it on repeat and enjoy the crystalline ice storm wonder as noon goes to night....
- 2021
Calabasas 1/26/20 (2021)
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A dense fog in the San Fernando Valley cancels a meeting of UFO hunters and causes an unexpected tragedy in the nearby mountains....
- 2013
Disintegration Loops (dlp 6) (2013)
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The experience of listening to Disintegration Loops (dlp 6) "brings the trials of life and death into a sublime focus"....
- 2015
Cascade (The Deluge) (2015)
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A short animated film by William Basinski and James Elaine....
- 2014
Disintegration Loops (dlp 5) (2014)
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Disintegration Loops (dlp 5) consists of one static shot, which transmutes in an emotional odyssey....
- 1969
A Red Score in Tile (1969)
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Made up of piano, this shows Basinski's patented tape-loop technique perfectly and still stands as one of his most affecting pieces of music; still film-work scoring the James Elaine's painting of the same name....
- 2006
Sync Up Element (2006)
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'This is about the dreamlike images I saw while having epilepsy seizures, as they quite often happened in the past years.' (Stom Sogo)...
- 2006
blueprints on a winter pond (2006)
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A short film by William Basinski & James Elaine....