Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is a 1987 documentary by Howard Brookner about Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Like Howard Brookner’s earlier film Burroughs: The Movie, Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars features unique access to its subject, as well as an impressive host of interviewees, including Wilson’s long-term composer Phillip Glass, Heiner Müller, Lucinda Childs, Sheryl Sutton, Ingrid Andree, Bénédicte Pesle, Gavin Bryars, Michel Guy, Isabel Eberstadt and Christopher Knowles.
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The film examines Wilson’s unique theatrical style during The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, which involves the continual creation of evocative stage sets, owing to a unique juxtaposition of movement, sound, text and image.
American Civil War | Star Wars | Woodrow Wilson | Spanish Civil War | Napoleonic Wars | Robert Louis Stevenson | Robert De Niro | English Civil War | Robert E. Lee | Robert Mugabe | Robert Redford | Robert Burns | Robert Bosch GmbH | Robert | Robert A. Heinlein | Robert Schumann | International Civil Aviation Organization | Union (American Civil War) | Robert Browning | Robert Rauschenberg | Robert Plant | American Civil Liberties Union | Harold Wilson | Robert Altman | Robert Mitchum | Pete Wilson | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Robert Frost | Wars of the Roses | Russian Civil War |