Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,2007. Most of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. But there is some new stuff too, particularly interviews with Denny Walley, Haskell Wekler, Elliot Ingber and Bruce Fowler.
Aging composer Franz Liszt lives in an abbey. On his birthday, a priest brings him a box that was ju...
After disbanding the original Mothers of Invention in '69, Frank Zappa unleashed a second incarnatio...
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A deconstruction of Dog Star Man that takes the four rolls and shows them first combined, then each ...
This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (197...
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Trudie Styler, a documentarian, had been allowed to film the production of 'Kingdom of the Sun'/'The...
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive document...
A romance between a struggling composer and an American singer.
All day of St. Petersburg bohemia in 4 minutes of the film.
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A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private fo...
On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Inven...
Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents s...
"as work in progress: treasures found in the streams around me."