In this two-part work, which can be considered John Cage's only film, abstractions of light travel in (and through) sound and space. One11 is, according to Cage, “a solo for the camera.” He considered it “a film without a plot. There is light, but there are no people, no things, no ideas about repetition and variation. Despite being a meaningless activity, it is capable of communicating, like light itself.” As for 103 , he considered it “an orchestral work, divided into 17 parts. The duration of each part is the same for all the string and percussion instruments. The wind instruments, however, follow a different plan… Operating randomly, the number of wind instruments changes in each part.” The work premiered in 1992 at the Cologne Philharmonic, performed by the WDR Radio and Symphony Orchestra. The video version we screened was supervised by Cage himself.

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