A Year With John Cage How To Get Out Of The Cage ( Documentary, 2012)

With German and French subtitles. This compelling documentary, seen through the lens of awardwinning filmmaker Frank Scheffer, presents an intimate portrait of one of the 20th century s most important composers and creative minds at work. From 1982 to 1992, Frank Scheffer worked with John Cage on numerous occasions, which resulted in a unique archive of historical audiovisual material. Based on this unique archive, including interviews, musical performances, and images of different locations related to Cage s life and work filmed in 16mm filmmaker Frank Scheffer created How to get out of the Cage A Year with John Cage. In all of Scheffers works related to John Cage he uses the old Chinese method of chance operations based on the I Ching as often used by John Cage himself in his compositions. For this new documentary he decided for another approach: Instead of using chance operations he edited the film in the usual way that is based on choice. I wanted the documentary