Robert Ashley Movies

This work is Woody's first entry into the narrative sphere, whereby the "story" is continually undermined with the aid of various anti-narrative...

The story of Willard from Ashley's opera Atalanta, recounted in 3 parts.

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing...

A girl wanders through an abandoned farmhouse; doors open and close of themselves; when the girl finds a mark over a lipstick circle she had made on...

Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection...

A television documentary produced for British Television directed by Peter Greenaway.

So getting up gets to be a problem for a sensitive person like him. The problem is to run that gauntlet again. Remove problem, remove gauntlet,...

A new production of Robert Ashley's 1991 opera, "Improvement (Don Leaves Linda)," featuring Gelsey Bell, Amirtha Kidambi, Brian McCorkle, Paul Pinto,...

Buried inside the epic American opera for television, “Perfect Lives” are the boogie-woogie lessons being sold by Buddy to untalented...