Suzanne Ciani Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Suzanne Ciani
Sound
Biography
Suzanne Ciani is an American musician, sound designer, composer, and record label executive who found early success in the 1970s with her innovative electronic music and sound effects for films and television commercials.
Filmography Movies
Acting
A Life in Waves
Explores the life and innovations of composer and electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.
Sisters with Transistors
Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.
La Partitura del Cosmos
The film, subsidized by the Tenerife Island Council, explores the relationship between the logic of the universe and musical language. In this work, Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music, travels to the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) to investigate this groundbreaking scientific research. This pioneering discovery reveals that spiral galaxies rotate with the same rhythmic pattern and that their different galactic disks spin in harmony, musically connected to one another, like the instruments of an orchestra. With the help of musicians from different continents, Ciani sets out to compose the score of the cosmos in an unprecedented dialogue between music and astronomy.
Production
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
Mother Teresa
We follow the daily activities of Mother Teresa and her nuns, in service to the poor of India and the world. Mother Teresa attends to the basic needs of her nuns and the poor, while at the same time, balances her role as world-recognized leader. Throughout the film, we witness personal and "behind-the-scenes" events, including the blessing ceremony of a nun becoming part of Mother Teresa's "Sisters of the Poor" convent.
Fangs
A snake lover sends out poisonous snakes and reptiles to kill his enemies.
Rainbow's Children
In 'Rainbow's Children', Lloyd Williams reveals the dreamer awakening; erotic displacements of dreams are transformed into the erotic realities of life itself – although still poetically suffused with a dream like languor which the filmmaker cannot escape. The texture of flesh, the ambiguity of longing and the colors of psychedelic apotheosis all merge into a languorous ecstasy which Lloyd Williams is adept in translating into the medium of film. All the varieties of film technique: slow motion, multiple-exposure, fast motion, camera in full flight and frozen image, he uses for the revelation of his intense fantasy, whether from dreams or from real-life or from hallucinated contemplation. His work shows that the dreamer is, indeed, awakening into a whole new world of erotic fantasy, muted with desire. If hard core films shock you, the films of Lloyd Williams will caress you." –Charles Boultenhouse
Late Bloomers
A lonely secretary leaves her family for love with a female basketball coach. But their awakening galvanizes the local conservative community, with the small-town drama permeating everywhere from the teacher’s lounge to the student body to the PTA, yet leads to unexpected love-conquers-all resolutions.
Sunstream
Experimental short film shot at Berkely in the Fine Art Department.
La Partitura del Cosmos
The film, subsidized by the Tenerife Island Council, explores the relationship between the logic of the universe and musical language. In this work, Suzanne Ciani, a pioneer of electronic music, travels to the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) to investigate this groundbreaking scientific research. This pioneering discovery reveals that spiral galaxies rotate with the same rhythmic pattern and that their different galactic disks spin in harmony, musically connected to one another, like the instruments of an orchestra. With the help of musicians from different continents, Ciani sets out to compose the score of the cosmos in an unprecedented dialogue between music and astronomy.