Research Catalog

Title

The Watermill Center: [--production original footage] [videorecording]/ Robert Wilson, artistic director ; producers, Maryte Kavaliauskas, Debrah Pearson ; director, Maryte Kavaliauskas.

Publication

Water Mill, N.Y., 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Robert, 1941-
• Kavaliauskas, Maryte
• Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.
• Engeln, Stéphanie
• Rommen, Ann-Christin
• Huppert, Isabelle
• Richardson, Miranda
• Pearson, Debrah
• Glass, Philip
• Soast, Julian
• Ruckel, Fred
• Dordal, Paul
• Adler, Cynthia
• Elkins, Leslie
• Kavallieratos, Marianna
• Watermill Center

Description

14 videodiscs (DVD) (370 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Unedited footage shot for promotional video The Watermill Center, seen in its complete form in NCOX 3078. The filmmakers talk over the footage, giving instruction to the camera person about what/how to shoot.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation.

Series Statement

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Subject

• Wilson, Robert, 1941-
• Watermill Center
• Centers for the performing arts

Genre/Form

Unedited footage.

Note

• Donor's inventory numbers: WMC RF 01-14.
• "The Watermill Center. Founded by Robert Wilson to develop new works in the performing arts." -- Credits
• No credits on tapes. Credits taken from finished video, The Watermill Center (NCOX 3078). Description taken from shot lists accompanying tapes.

Access (note)

• Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

• Director of photography, Walter Gregg ; music, Philip Glass ; Avid editor, Julian Soast ; on-line editor, Fred Ruckel ; audio engineer, Paul Dordal.

Event (note)

• Videorecorded in Water Mill, N.Y. in 1995.

Contents

• Disc 1. Traveling scenes (shots of the area surrounding the Watermill Center) (31 min.)
• Disc 2. Water Mill charcoal (Marianna Kavallieratos dances. Robert Wilson, assisted by Watermill Center participants, works on a charcoal drawing) (28 min.)
• Disc 3. Drawing (Wilson sketching continued. Wilson gives a tour of the Watermill Center to antique dealer/teacher Robert Skinner) (31 min.)
• Disc 4. Interior (Wilson/Skinner tour continued) (30 min.)
• Disc 5. Interior (Wilson/Skinner tour continued. General interior shots of the Watermill Center) (30 min.)
• Disc 6. Studio (Shots from inside rehearsal studio, Wilson's room, photo room, shots of Wilson sketching) (30 min.)
• Disc 7. Exterior (Wilson sketching. Stephanie Englin's [?] departure from the Watermill Center. Shots of set-up for a rehearsal of Persephone) (28 min.)
• Disc 8. Rehearsal of Persephone. Ann-Christin Rommen directs. Marianna Kavallieratos dances. (19 min.)
• Disc 9. Exterior (Shots of Watermill Center. Various members of the 1995 Watermill Summer Program discuss how they came to be at Watermill. Marianna Kavallieratos relates the myth of Persephone and discusses her career) (25 min.)
• Disc 10. Interior. (Shots of Watermill Center video room. Ann-Christin Rommen watches a videotape of Isabelle Huppert performing in Orlando. Shots of architects working. Shots of Miranda Richardson working in a rehearsal studio and talking with Ann-Christin Rommen) (25 min.)
• Disc 11. Interior. (Robert Wilson, Ann-Christin Rommen, and Miranda Richardson watch a videotape of Isabelle Huppert performing in Orlando in preparation for Richardson's performance of the English version of the work) (30 min.)
• Disc 12. Interior. (Wilson, Rommen, and Richardson video viewing continued. Wilson, Rommen, and Richardson work on a script reading. Shots of lunch at the Watermill Center) (30 min.)
• Disc 13. Sunset shots (5 min.)
• Disc 14. Transfer from 8mm (Marianna Kavallieratos dances. Shots of the area surrounding the Watermill Center) (28 min.)

Call Number

NCOX 3079

OCLC

NYPG05-F11352

Title

The Watermill Center: [--production original footage] [videorecording]/ Robert Wilson, artistic director ; producers, Maryte Kavaliauskas, Debrah Pearson ; director, Maryte Kavaliauskas.

Imprint

Water Mill, N.Y., 1995.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Series

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Event

Videorecorded in Water Mill, N.Y. in 1995.

Credits

Director of photography, Walter Gregg ; music, Philip Glass ; Avid editor, Julian Soast ; on-line editor, Fred Ruckel ; audio engineer, Paul Dordal.

Performer

Narrators, Robert Wilson, Cynthia Adler, Leslie Elkins, Marianna Kavallieratos.

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Added Author

Wilson, Robert, 1941- director.

Wilson, Robert, 1941- narrator.

Wilson, Robert, 1941- Persephone.

Kavaliauskas, Maryte, producer, director.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Orlando.

Engeln, Stéphanie.

Rommen, Ann-Christin.

Huppert, Isabelle.

Richardson, Miranda.

Pearson, Debrah, producer.

Glass, Philip, composer.

Soast, Julian, editor of moving image work.

Ruckel, Fred, editor of moving image work.

Dordal, Paul, sound.

Adler, Cynthia, narrator.

Elkins, Leslie, narrator.

Kavallieratos, Marianna, narrator.

Watermill Center.

Research Call Number

NCOX 3079