Assemblage /

Duration: 58

Year Published: 1968

Creator: A film by Richard Moore, Phillip Greene, Bill Yahraus, William Winans, and Bernie Stoffer ; a production of the KQED Film Unit.

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Moore, Richard O., film director.; Cunningham, Merce, dancer.; Cage, John, composer (expression), instrumentalist.; Tudor, David, 1926-1996, composer (expression), instrumentalist.; Mumma, Gordon, 1935- instrumentalist.; KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.). Film Unit, production company.; W.A. Palmer Films, special effects provider.; National Endowment for the Arts, sponsoring body.

Description: Publication date inferred from date of production as stated in credits.; Credits are presented asymmetrically, and somewhat out of order.; Distributed in video formats by Electronic Arts Intermix.; "This production was made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts."; "Filmed on location at Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco."; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only. CBPF.; Music, John Cage and David Tudor; musicians, John Cage, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma; special effects printing, W.A. Palmer Films, Inc., San Francisco; special assistants, Jean Rigg, Jim Baird, and Rick Nelson.; Barbara Styman with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, with Carolyn Brown, Sandra Neels, Valda Setterfield, Meg Harper, Susana Hayman-Chaffey, Jeff Slayton, Chase Robinson, Mel Wong.; "Assemblage presents a dance that unfolds across fractured space and inside shattered time. Produced for broadcast by San Francisco's public television station KQED, Assemblage is a film with two subjects: Merce Cunningham's dance company and Ghirardelli Square, one of the first of a new wave of gentrified urban environments where dilapidated markets or industrial sites were rehabilitated as mall- like retail districts. In an interview with San Francisco critic Robert Commanday, Cunningham explained his idea that "the finished film will deal not so much with dance in the narrow sense, but with various motions--boats moving, people walking, and, of course, groups dancing." On screen, Cunningham's dancers walk, frolic, and scramble through the shopping concourses and promenades of the square."--Electronic Arts Intermix website, http:// www.eai.org/title.htm?id=15137; PFA 1620-01-15283. D0320; PFA 1620-01-15283. CONDITION NOTE: checked 2012: Color faded to reddish brown; some heavy veneer scratches

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE