[silence] Cage's feature film One11 and 103 now on DVD

[Brian Brandt]

   Dear Silencers

Mode Records has just issued John Cage's only feature film One11 with 
the orchestral soundtrack 103 on DVD, in an authorized version from its 
director Henning Lohner. For more information, please see below or visit 
the link:
http://moderecords.com/catalog/174cage.html


One11 (1992)
a film without subject by John Cage, produced and directed by Henning Lohner

with

103 (1991)
for large orchestra
the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln or Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Arturo Tamayo and John Kennedy, directors

(90 minutes)


THE FIRST COMMERCIAL RELEASE OF CAGE'S ONLY MAJOR FILM.

"One11 and 103' is very strong, very daring, and finally completely 
mesmerizing."
--- Louis Malle, Los Angeles, 21 October 1992

John Cage created his only feature-length film in the year he died. A 
sublime performance for camera person and light, One11 is a film without 
subject, in black and white. There is light but no persons, no things, 
no ideas about repetition and variation. The final impression is of 
another, timeless place - freely roaming the clouds or, perhaps, under 
the sea. Chance operations were used with respect to the lighting, 
camera shots and the editing of the film. The light environment was 
designed and programmed by John Cage and Andrew Culver. The orchestral 
work 103 musically accompanies One11. Like the film, 103 is 90-minutes 
long, divided into seventeen parts - its density varies from solos, 
duos, trios to full orchestral tuttis.

Cage started to address the perception of emptiness and at the same time 
the random quality of what happens in a prescribed space as early as 
1952 in his piece 4:33, which consisted entirely of silence. Forty years 
later he said: "Of course the film will be about the effect of light in 
an empty space. But no space is actually empty and the light will show 
what is in it. And all this space and all this light will be controlled 
by random operations."

This simple concept was implemented professionally and with a great deal 
of technical input in a Munich television studio under the direction of 
Henning Lohner.

The film One11 and the musical piece ("soundtrack") 103 are of the same 
duration and run in parallel, without relating directly to each other, 
but each has 17 parts. Each of the parts is based on approx. 1200 random 
operations devised by a computer and determining how the lighting is 
controlled and the movements of a crane-mounted camera.

The result, aided by the distinguished cameraman Van Theodore Carlson, 
is a film entirely without plot or actors, which Cage hopes will enable 
viewers to find themselves.

Two distinct soundtracks are offered of 103 for large orchestra to 
accompany the film: one taken from the premiere of the piece by the 
prestigious WDR Symphony Orchestra of the German Radio in Cologne, the 
other by the Spoleto Festival Orchestra.

This release marks the first in a series of Henning Lohner's films to be 
released on Mode Records, including additional films on Cage.


ADDITIONAL FEATURES:

    * Choice of two orchestral soundtracks performed by the WDR
      Sinfonieorchester Köln and The Spoleto Festival Orchestra.

    * The Making of One11: a 43-minute documentary on the creative
      process and realization of the film made for television by Henning
      Lohner at that time - with new narration by Joan La Barbara.

    * Interview with Van Carlson & Henning Lohner discussing their work
      with Cage and the film, the technical challenges, and more. Filmed
      for this DVD in 2006. (33 minutes).

TO ORDER:
Available in stores in December or direct from Mode for $19.99 plus 
$3.25 shipping & handling. For foreign orders, please see:
http://moderecords.com/order.html

OTHER JOHN CAGE DVDS ON MODE RECORDS:
FROM ZERO: 4 Films on John Cage by Frank Scheffer and Andrew Culver -- 
with John Cage, The Ives Ensemble, Isabelle Ganz and Michael Pugliese 
(mode 130)
http://moderecords.com/catalog/130cage.html

Margaret Leng Tan performs the first recording of Cage's CHESS PIECES; 
with SONATAS & INTERLUDES and Rieti's CHESS SERENADE. Plus: Ms. Tan's 
documentaries on the Prepared Piano and exploration of Cage's actual box 
of preparations for SONATAS & INTERLUDES; and and "CAGE: 
Music/Art/Chess" (a closeup look at Cage's and Rieti's pieces in the 
Noguchi Museum's "The Imagery of Chess Revisited" show). (mode 158, also 
on CD)
http://moderecords.com/catalog/158cage.html

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