I wanted to create a story where the participants were the narrators with the sense that the audience was invited into the room to share in these lives of Philip, his friends and family. I always felt the film would be a kind of “mosaic portrait”, like a Chuck Close portrait, where an arrangement of fragments form an overall picture.
Picture: Director Scott Hicks (center) films artist Chuck Close (left) in conversation with Philip Glass (right) in New York, as part of "GLASS : a portrait of Philip in twelve parts" (photo by L. Skutch)
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