The Revenge Of The Dead Indians

The Revenge Of The Dead Indians.

The Revenge Of The Dead Indians (original title: Die Rache der Toten Indianer) is a 1992 German documentary film (130 mins) about the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage, written and directed by Henning Lohner.

It features interviews with Frank Zappa and also Yves Bazillou, Michael Berger, Farid Chahboub, Noam Chomsky, Merce Cunningham, Jacqueline Daubert, René Delesalle, Kelly Ellsworth, William Forsythe, Corinne Fortin, Betty Freeman, Frank O. Gehry, Murray Gell-Mann, Matt Groening, Ben Habdallah, Rutger Hauer, Dennis Hopper, Alison Knowles, Raymond Kurzweil, Edward Lorenz, Benoît B. Mandelbrot, Yehudi Menuhin, Mohamed Ben Methnic, Marvin Minsky, Heiner Müller, M. Neraqueller, Jean Nouvel, Yoko Ono, Baramouh Parianen, Soopaya Parianen, Tomaso Poggio, René Sancier, Richard Serra, Giorgio Strehler, Claude Trouve, Iannis Xenakis and John Zorn.

Some footage previously appeared in Lohner's other documentary, Peefeeyatko (1991).

Some Zappa quotes from this documentary

• "Think of a chemical compound which had part of its ingredients being Beethoven’s 5th and “Louie Louie” at the same time, coexisting in the same universe and all part of the same substance."

• "Why not? Nobody’s ever heard it. Let’s listen to it."

• "What is that doing to your brain? The nice chord and a smashing glass at the same time. One thing indicates violence, the other thing indicates rest. How does your emotional mechanism in your body compute this audio artefact that you’ve been confronted with? What do you do with it? Let’s find out."

See also

• Peefeeyatko
• Ode To Gravity, transcribed radio interview.