John Zorn Movies

Iconic film moments juxtaposed with the ordinary. The methods to create the shots run from classic studio set-ups to shooting on location using...

André and Kim are a young couple living together in Montréal. André works with his family in Bungee jumping business while Kim...

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 look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

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...

An unfaithful interpretation of John Zorn’s early 80’s film script, “A Treatment For A Film in 15 Scenes”. I consider...

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...

He's been called Dr. Bones and Reptile Ray. Usually dressed in tattered "field-trip" clothes, Ray Bandar has been a fixture at the California Academy...

Produced during a year-long residency in New York, Neo Geo is a vivid portrayal of the contemporary American cultural landscape.

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...

Cahen surveys a New York in transition, in transit, in smog, in chaos and in peace.

Loosely based on a section of the great Indian Mahabharata epic, Mori's Bhima Swarga (The Heaven of Bhima) is a riveting audiovisual exercise that...

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 globally composed, musically arranged montage-round: so Henry Hills’s arcana appears to be, a fulminant 30-minute cut-up epic that takes...

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

Short animation from Nicolas Brault

Four short films directed by Kubo Kiriko.

Money (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene.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