Perfect lives : an opera for television in seven episodes
- Title
- Perfect lives : an opera for television in seven episodes / written and created for television by Robert Ashley.
- Published by
- New York : Lovely Music, 1983.
- Author
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Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 2 videocassettes (182 min.) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Experimental opera for television employing computer graphics, live action, and electronic music. Story concerns a singer and his pianist who come to a small town in the Midwest to play at the Perfect Lives Lounge. They get caught up in a bank robbery plan with a local brother and sister.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Experimental films.
- Music videos.
- Television operas.
- Opéras pour la télévision.
- Vidéoclips.
- Films expérimentaux.
- Contents
- I. The park (Privacy rules) -- II. The supermarket (Famous people) -- III. The bank (Victimless crime) -- IV. The Bar (Differences) -- V. The living room (The solutions) -- VI. The church (After the facts) -- VII. The backyard (T'Be continued)
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Each episode 26 min.
- Credits (note)
- Directed by John Sanborn, produced in collaboration with Carlota Schoolman for The Kitchen (New York City) in association with Channel Four (Great Britain).