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Collaboration with Robert Ashley’s “Perfect Lives”
UNITED STATES, 1981, 00:28:30
Genre : Video art
Keyword : Music, Television
Summary :
From Robert Ashley’s “Perfect Lives”.
Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented people in the middle of America. This pilot for the series is an abstraction that plays on the meaning of life (which is unknowable) and how to make art (impossible to teach) featuring the sublime mysteries of the traveling musician.
Original language : _wordless
Technical information : Music by Peter Gordon
Original format : video
Aspect ratio : 4/3
Chroma : Couleur
Available version(s) : Sans paroles