Scott Hicks documents an eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished Western classical composer Philip Glass as he interacts with a number of friends and collaborators, who include Chuck Close, Ravi Shankar, and Martin Scorsese.
Direction
Hicks finds poetry in Glass's mundane rituals and explosive creativity.
Editing
Twelve-part structure mirrors the minimalist compositions themselves.
Production
Unprecedented access to a notoriously private musical titan.
Director
Scott Hicks
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Glass composed new music specifically for this documentary, making the film itself a meta-commentary on his creative process.
The twelve-part structure deliberately references Glass's own modular compositional technique, where repeating phrases build complex emotional architecture.
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