Coffee with Pina is a film that refuses to adhere to conventions. It is not fiction, yet it is not quite documentary, either. More than anything else, this film is a study of documentation, memory and experience. This film creates a stream of consciousness that immerses the viewer in beauty, strength and an intense joie de vivre. Within these one can find a rare ingredient that can be defined as realistic optimism.

-- Smadar Shefffi, Haaretz

When Pina Bausch revived her seminal 1978 dance piece in 2000, she opted to use a cast of seniors, previously untrained in stage dancing, with stunning, if sometimes uncomfortable results. The piece is set in a dance hall, with the participants preparing for an encounter and hoping to find love. Against a background of sentimental German songs of the 1930s, jazz, and tangos, the performers, all aged between 65 and 75, enact mating rituals and sexual frenzy apparently more suited to those less than half their ages.

This insightful film documents the fifty year old collaboration between two revolutionary American artists, composer John Cage and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Tracing the history of their renowned and enduring joint endeavors, the film explores the artistic and philosophical associations that Cage and Cunningham have had with a wide range of leading figures in the art, literary, dance and music worlds.

Points in Space is a critically acclaimed collaboration for the screen by choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and filmmaker Elliot Caplan.