Having just watched a portion of John Cage's film 'One11 & 103' I confess that I'm a little disappointed. For the most part I'm a fan of John Cage, but this piece fell short of my expectations. I found the theory, the parameters, and the ideas that went into the creation of the piece to be much more interesting than the piece itself. As I was watching it I was distracted and kept thinking "this is the sort of piece that makes regular people think that artists are weird". This piece is supposedly about light, but it's not. It's about the light produced by a small selection of theatrical lighting instruments, and I don't even feel that these instruments (or the room in which the piece was filmed) were used to their fullest potential.
That said, I did only watch a fraction of the entire piece, and I was more engaged as time went on. I'm sure I would feel differently if I watched the entire thing, or had the experience of watching it on a theater full of people (with a live orchestra?) as I believe it was intended to be viewed.
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