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Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS [international versions]

Title: Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS [videorecording] : [international versions] / a Aspekt Telefilm Hamburg/Unisphere Pictures New York production ; in association with ZDF/BBC/I.N.A. Paris/Centre National de la Cinématographie ; produced by Markus Trebitsch, Orin Wechsberg, Howard Brookner ; directed by Howard Brookner ; German version directed by Peter Leippe.
Publication: New York : WNET, 1986-12-07.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 3	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 3107 Disc 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 2	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 3107 Disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Disc 1	Moving image	Restricted use	NCOX 3107 Disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - TOFT

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Description

3 videodiscs (DVD) (ca. 142 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"A documentary about the making of Robert Wilson's multi-national epic the CIVIL warS -- an opera intended for the 1984 Olympic Arts Festival in Los Angeles. Includes excerpts from the various national sections of the opera, footage of rehearsals and workshops, and interviews with Wilson and his collaborators" -- robertwilson.com.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation.

Series Statement

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Alternative Title

Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS
Robert Wilson & the CIVIL warS

Subjects

Genre/Form

Television.
Drama.
Documentaries and factual works.

Note

Donor's inventory numbers: HBI 01A, HBI 01B, HBI 06, HBI 08A, HBI 08B, HBI 09.
For additional versions of Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS, see NCOX 3108, NCOX 3109, NCOX 3110.
"For Brad Gooch" -- credits.
Additional credits from press packet for the film.

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Indexed In (note)

New York times

Event (note)

Final version broadcast December 7, 1986 at 10:00 p.m. (EST) during the series The creative edge.

Language (note)

In English, German, French, and Japanese with English voice-over.

Contents

Discs 1 and 2. Final version. (ca. 90 min.) -- Disc 3. Early version [of international version] (ca. 52 min.)

Call Number

NCOX 3107

OCLC

NYPG06-F170

Title

Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS [videorecording] : [international versions] / a Aspekt Telefilm Hamburg/Unisphere Pictures New York production ; in association with ZDF/BBC/I.N.A. Paris/Centre National de la Cinématographie ; produced by Markus Trebitsch, Orin Wechsberg, Howard Brookner ; directed by Howard Brookner ; German version directed by Peter Leippe.

Imprint

New York : WNET, 1986-12-07.

Edition

USA/West German version.

Country of Producing Entity

West Germany ; United States ; Great Britain ; France.

Series

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Performer

Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Peter Lühr, Maria Niklisch, Paul Schmidt, Ivan Nagel, Ethel [i.e. Etel] Adnan, Jack Lang, Heiner Müller, Gabriele Henkel, Cindy Lubar, Sheryl Sutton, Benedicte Pesle, Michel Guy, Isabel Eberstadt, Lucinda Childs, Christopher Knowles, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Tom Kamm, Gavin Bryars, Bob Applegarth, Raymond Andrews, Louis Aragon, David Byrne.

Event

Final version broadcast December 7, 1986 at 10:00 p.m. (EST) during the series The creative edge.

Indexed In:

New York times, December 6, 1986, p. 54.

Language

In English, German, French, and Japanese with English voice-over.

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Added Author

Gooch, Brad, 1952- eedicatee.

Wilson, Robert, 1941- interviewee.

Trebitsch, Markus, producer.

Wechsberg, Orin, producer.

Brookner, Howard, producer, director.

Leippe, Peter, director.

Glass, Philip, interviewee.

Lühr, Peter, 1906-1988, interviewee.

Niklisch, Maria, interviewee.

Schmidt, Paul, 1934-1999, interviewee.

Nagel, Ivan, 1931-2012, interviewee.

Adnan, Etel, interviewee.

Lang, Jack, 1939- interviewee.

Müller, Heiner, 1929-1995, interviewee.

Henkel, Gabriele, interviewee.

Lubar, Cindy, interviewee.

Sutton, Sheryl, 1950- interviewee.

Pesle, Benedicte, interviewee.

Guy, Michel, interviewee.

Eberstadt, Isabel, interviewee.

Childs, Lucinda, interviewee.

Knowles, Christopher, 1959- interviewee.

Kuroyanagi, Tetsuko, 1933- interviewee.

Kamm, Tom, interviewee.

Bryars, Gavin, interviewee.

Applegarth, Bob, interviewee.

Andrews, Raymond, 1956- depicted.

Aragon, 1897-1982, depicted.

Byrne, David, 1952- depicted.

Aspekte Telefilm-Produktion GmbH, producer.

Unisphere Pictures International, producer.

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, producer.

British Broadcasting Corporation, producer.

Institut national de l'audiovisuel (France), producer.

Centre national de la cinématographie (France), producer.

WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)

Research Call Number

NCOX 3107

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