John Zorn Movies

This film is a documentary composition of new jazz, New York as the city that generates it, and the musicians playing it. The thoughts of the...

An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith.

The more the knots tighten around her body, the more Clara's imagination flies away. She finds herself naked at the edge of a forest. The grass...

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of...

Experimental documentary about Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. Includes interviews with multiple musicians, artists, and writers as...

A film set to "Batman" by Naked City. Taking the band’s name and first album cover as a clue, Henry Hills drew heavily on themes in...

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads...

In 1942, nazi leaders met in Wansee to organize the final solution to the Jewish problem. The Warsaw guetto was first. Treblinka was created in a...

SM curio immaculately shot by Maria Beatty.

A job like any other, for those who get up, go to bed, and collect their money.

An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

Short comedy film from Dina Waxman.

For 12 years now, Mathieu Amalric has been filming the stupendous New York saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Whirligig films that Zorn likes to...

With his hand-held video camera, Jalal Toufic presents faces of ordinary people living in a war-ravaged country. He begins with a 1987 US state...

— The term "KiyaKiya" comes from the old Japanese expression "mune ga kiyakiya suru." I first encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's book...

A young Taiwanese filmmaker explores the lives, dreams, and aspirations of a group of tenants at the Hastings Hotel, a resident hotel located in...

Documentary examining contemporary Jewish musical culture in New York's avant garde Jazz scene in the 1990s.

MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN is an experimental film in the form of a scientific documentary. A "remake" of the documentary film of the same name by...

Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the...

Short animation from Nicolas Brault