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Perfect Lives (1984)

Perfect Lives (1984)

Music TV Movie

An opera for television

Release Date: 1984, February 16
Directors: John Sanborn
Countries: United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: The Kitchen, Channel 4 Television, Channel 4 Television
Cast: Jill Kroesen, Robert Ashley

Overview:

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".

Keywords:

pop art conceptual art