The Revenge Of The Dead Indians

A 1992 documentary film (130 mins) about the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Written and directed by Henning Lohner. Made in Germany as "Die Rache der toten Indianer".
Also known as "Peefeeyatko"

Featuring:

Yves Bazillou .... Himself

Michael Berger .... Himself

Farid Chahboub .... Himself

Noam Chomsky .... Himself; see also: Ode To Gravity, transcribed radio interview.

Merce Cunningham .... Himself

Jacqeline Daubert .... Herself

René Delesalle .... Herself

Kelly Ellsworth .... Herself

William Forsythe .... Himself

Corinne Fortin .... Herself

Betty Freeman .... Herself

Frank O. Gehry .... Himself

Murray Gell-Mann .... Himself

Matt Groening .... Himself

Ben Habdallah .... Himself

Rutger Hauer .... Himself

Dennis Hopper .... Himself

Alison Knowles .... Herself

Raymond Kurzweil .... Himself

Edward Lorenz .... Himself

Benoît B. Mandelbrot .... Himself

Yehudi Menuhin .... Himself

Mohamed Ben Methnic .... Himself

Marvin Minsky .... Himself

Heiner Müller .... Himself

M. Neraqueller .... Himself

Jean Nouvel .... Himself

Yoko Ono .... Herself

Baramouh Parianen .... Himself

Soopaya Parianen .... Himself

Tomaso Poggio .... Himself

René Sancier .... Herself

Richard Serra .... Himself

Giorgio Strehler .... Himself

Claude Trouve .... Himself

Iannis Xenakis .... Himself

Frank Zappa .... Himself

John Zorn .... Himself

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."