John Zorn Movies

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

Through interviews we meet some of the people who risked their lives to hide Jewish children during World War II and how this experience has...

Is heavy manual labour disappearing or is it just becoming invisible? Where can we still find it in the 21st century? Workingman's Death follows the...

Art gathers the ex-prisoners Jimmy and Mike with his girlfriend Jessica and presents a plan for kidnapping the daughter of a millionaire. The plan...

Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life....

Filmed with an intimate three camera shoot by Antonio Ferrera, a close friend of John Zorn and a long time cameraman for the documentary masters the...

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

SM curio immaculately shot by Maria Beatty.

A rare peek into the working methods of John Zorn. Filmed over a ten year period, this documentary includes live footage of Masada, Naked City,...

Part of a CD+DVD set released by Tzadik. Recorded at the powerful organ at Henry LeBoeuf Hall, Bozar in Brussels, this is one of Zorn’s most...

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

"Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags" brings to life the vibrant, unexpected history of the Garment District, which for many years was the heart and...

This is a full-length documentary honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage. Cage is considered one of the most...

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...

A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

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...

Little Lieutenant is a look back at the late Weimar era with its struggles and celebrations leading up to world war, a period piece. Scored to John...

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.