Movies: William Basinski

  • 2019
    Other Music

    Other Music (2019)

    Other Music

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    A documentary highlighting the 20 year history of influential indie record store Other Music in Manhattan's East Village....

    Other Music
  • 2021
    Faya Dayi

    Faya Dayi (2021)

    Faya Dayi

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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 ...

    Faya Dayi
  • 2017
    Midwinter Hue

    Midwinter Hue (2017)

    Midwinter Hue

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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....

    Midwinter Hue
  • 2021
    Disintegration Loops

    Disintegration Loops (2021)

    Disintegration Loops

    02021HD

    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....

    Disintegration Loops
  • 2004
    Disintegration Loop 1.1

    Disintegration Loop 1.1 (2004)

    Disintegration Loop 1.1

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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...

    Disintegration Loop 1.1
  • 2003
    Melancholia

    Melancholia (2003)

    Melancholia

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    A short film by James Elaine and William Basinski....

    Melancholia
  • 2025
    Later in the Clearing

    Later in the Clearing (2025)

    Later in the Clearing

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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....

    Later in the Clearing
  • 2022
    Iceland Celeste

    Iceland Celeste (2022)

    Iceland Celeste

    02022HD

    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....

    Iceland Celeste
  • 2021
    Calabasas 1/26/20

    Calabasas 1/26/20 (2021)

    Calabasas 1/26/20

    02021HD

    A dense fog in the San Fernando Valley cancels a meeting of UFO hunters and causes an unexpected tragedy in the nearby mountains....

    Calabasas 1/26/20
  • 2013
    Disintegration Loops (dlp 6)

    Disintegration Loops (dlp 6) (2013)

    Disintegration Loops (dlp 6)

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    The experience of listening to Disintegration Loops (dlp 6) "brings the trials of life and death into a sublime focus"....

    Disintegration Loops (dlp 6)
  • 2015
    Cascade (The Deluge)

    Cascade (The Deluge) (2015)

    Cascade (The Deluge)

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    A short animated film by William Basinski and James Elaine....

    Cascade (The Deluge)
  • 2014
    Disintegration Loops (dlp 5)

    Disintegration Loops (dlp 5) (2014)

    Disintegration Loops (dlp 5)

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    Disintegration Loops (dlp 5) consists of one static shot, which transmutes in an emotional odyssey....

    Disintegration Loops (dlp 5)
  • 1969
    A Red Score in Tile

    A Red Score in Tile (1969)

    A Red Score in Tile

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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....

    A Red Score in Tile
  • 2006
    Sync Up Element

    Sync Up Element (2006)

    Sync Up Element

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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)...

    Sync Up Element
  • 2006
    blueprints on a winter pond

    blueprints on a winter pond (2006)

    blueprints on a winter pond

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    A short film by William Basinski & James Elaine....

    blueprints on a winter pond