Crew

Written and directed by Rika Ohara

Edited, effected and animated by Rika Ohara

"Arse Longa" scene directed by Peter Schulte

Camera:
Rika Ohara
Barry Morse

Camera, Berlin:
Johannes Daniel Münch
Anastasia Vinokourova

Additional Camerawork, Berlin/Prague/Glasgow/Ho Chi Minh City/Los Angeles:
John Payne

Additional Camerawork, Los Angeles/Death Valley:
Charles Lane

Additional Camerawork, Pasadena/Los Angeles:
Will Salmon

Sound:
Debbie Spinelli
Debbie King
John Payne
Barbara Zeleny


Lighting, opening and party scenes and Milk & Glass Dance:
Jamie Hunter

Set construction, Los Angeles:
Debbie King
Rika Ohara
Assistant Director, Baitz:
Ferdinand Maubrey

Assistant Director, Pasadena:
Sorina Diaconescu

Groundwork, Baitz:
Susken Rosenthal

Hair & make-up:
Mr. Barry of Hollywood

Casting, Berlin:
Benoît Maubrey
Johannes Daniel Münch

Costume:
Rika Ohara
Tress MacNeille
Mohammed Hanif Rashid

Fashion Consultant:
Kateri Butler

Footage of Tokyo:
From Bob Sucht Yoshiko by Brigitte Krause/Trigon Films

Footage of Havana:
from Habana Holiday (Yo Soy Malo) by Chris Maher

Translation, French: Bernadette Colomine

Translation, German: Jan Martin Harbst

Portrait of Holger Czukay by: Fritz Kissels

Additional still images by:
Chris Maher
David Rafique
Sorina Diaconescu


Music

Original soundtrack by John Payne

with additional sound collage by Rika Ohara

"Takeda Lullaby"
performed by Charles Lane

"Ask the Dragon"
by Yoko Ono
performed by Yoko Ono and IMA

"Meltaway"
by Dieter Moebius,
performed live by Dieter Moebius and Michael Rother at Star Pine Café, Tokyo, December 1999 recorded by Rika Ohara

"Mad at God"
"Candy Wrapper"
"Room to Breathe"
"Blind People"
written by Peter Fletcher, performed by The Pipelayers Union

"Dô Ya Sa ´Di Dô"
written, performed and produced by Anna Homler and Bernard Sauser-Hall
Pharmacia Poetica Publishing, BMI/Bug Music

"War of `99"
written and performed by The Dark Bob


Cast

Y: Rika Ohara

The Assistant: Charles Lane

Andrea: Sarah Holbert

The Former Artist Known as John: John Payne

Interviewer: Judith Lewis

Daniel Mohn: Daniel Lynch Millner

Y. as a girl: Yuka Tojo

Atlas/Chess Player: Supermarky

Chess Player/Ted: Loren Quintana

Professor: Steve Daly

Connie: Kateri Butler

Seeker, 1981: Penelope Sudrow

Art Dealer: Ross Crutchlow

Art Collector: Tress MacNeille

First Jogger: Susken Rosenthal

Man in framed photo: Tracy Rhoades

Dieter Möbius and Michael Rother as themselves

Art Critics: Bob & Bob

Filmmaker A: Manuel Boecker

Filmmaker B: Peter Schulte

The TV Reporter: Suzanne Smith

Le TV Reporter: Bernadette Colomine

Journalist: Brian Nahas

Journalist: Joel "The Professor" Cloud

The TV Cameraman: Jay Babcock

Le TV Cameraman: Joe Talkington

The bearded young man in desert: Barry Morse

Miso performers: David Calderon

Jay Larkins

Boy (infant): Shogo Rupert

Boy (5 years): Severin Costa

Boy (18 -23 years): Nathan Ihara

History Professor: Dorothy Jensen Payne

The Potato Woman: Julia Worm

Seekers, 1999:
David Calderon
Will Salmon
Ralph Gorodetsky

Carl Stone as (almost) himself

Peter Fletcher as (almost) himself

Dave Shulman as (not quite) himself

Holger Czukay as himself

Joggers in the Park:
Christian Funke
Estelle Rapaport
Carsten Strach

Dancers in the Park:
Doreen Haberland
Irina Korenejewa
Kristin Megner

Dancers on glass:
Brian Baljanski
Lewis Berty
Edwin Seth Brown
Carol Cetrone
Sherwood Chen
Belinda Cheng
Bernadette Colomine
Deidre Jenner
Minga Lily
Roxanne Merryfield
Danielle van Dobben

Opening and party guests:
Skylare Alfvegren
Jay Babcock
Sherwood Chen
Belissa Cohen
Paula Crutcher
Philip Eng
Lorin Hart
Doris Karbaj
Tulsa Kinney
Viva Krasinki
Nikki Lillestol
Adam Maron
Connie Monaghan
Carla Payne
Alan Pulner
Quilet Rarang
Mitsu Salmon
George Sukaru
Ivy Torres
Adam Ulrich
Anna Vand
Mauricio Vasquez
Mark Wheaton

Techies (Glasgow):
Mark Ritchie
Ian Urquhart
Tony Sweeten

Voice of the Diva: Tress MacNeille

Additional voices:
Mitsu Salmon
Timothy Power