Phill Niblock Movies

  • 2014
    Rice & Flowers

    Rice & Flowers

    Rice & Flowers

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    A 46 minute extreme close-up long take of a knife point counting grains of white rice, one by one, on a white surface, to the orchestra piece "One...

    Rice & Flowers
  • 1988
    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    Terrace of Unintelligibility

    01988HD

    Unedited concert footage of Arthur Russell playing at Experimental Intermedia Foundation on September 22 and October 27, 1985.

    Terrace of Unintelligibility
  • 1970
    Sunsets

    Sunsets

    Sunsets

    101970HD

    Original 16mm footage was shot on location in central New York within a 100 mile radius of the town of Clinton. Converted to NTSC video using a Rank...

    Sunsets
  • 1970
    Raoul

    Raoul

    Raoul

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    Rounding off the collection is 'Raoul', whose subject is the painter Raoul Middleman, captured at work in the studio using time lapse photography...

    Raoul
  • 1988
    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

    CHINA '88

    01988HD

    The series of films ‘The Movement of People Working’ portrays human labor in its most elementary form. Shot by Niblock between 1973-91,...

    CHINA '88
  • 1973
    Armand Schwerner

    Armand Schwerner

    Armand Schwerner

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    A short film by Niblock which consists simply of Armand Schwermer reading from his epic poem The Tablets with commentary, while strolling about in...

    Armand Schwerner
  • 2015
    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

    Timepiece/Maize

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    A 30 minute extreme close-up long take of the flow of sand trickling from the upper to the lower glass chamber of and hourglass to Phill Niblock's...

    Timepiece/Maize