Experimental Music Movies

A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism. An unparallele...

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys'...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be...

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based cha...

The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical avant-...

An intimate, affecting portrait of the life and work of ground-breaking performance artist and music pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (Throbbing Grist...

Lebanon today. The traces of the civil war are all too tangible as government corruption becomes unbearable. In a country where conflict and peace are...

Shot on July 23, 1968, this historical 16mm footage of Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention at Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, CA has been newly...

For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, c...

After I had already begun to conduct my first cinematographic experiments in 2015, I shot between 2016 and 2019 (during my time as a student in Rostoc...

In April 2008, LRS toured across the USA and met some amazing female noise artists. This is what it is like to be a girl of noise.

Day Trip Maryanne captures the collaboration between legendary sound sculptor Maryanne Amacher and guitarist Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth at her hous...

Then, now, where? how?

Before the freeze, there was beautiful garden. "Before the Freeze" is a short psychological thriller with experimental elements, about an overstresse...

“Don’t ask me what I mean, ask me what I’ve made” – inspired by this motto, the documentary accompanies the American composer Alvin Lucier (1931 - 202...

As Genesis and I were working on the documentary film "Change Itself” (released in 2016),we agreed that it would be great to also have Genesis readin...

"I swear, I wanted to make a “visual album” but this is literally the way the wind blew me this time."

A short documentary portrait of the artist William Eggleston; focusing particularly on his musical endeavours and his album Musik that was released th...

This short documentary film captures the natural movement of the moon mixed with an experimental musical track that accompanies the rhythm of the "wal...

"Cricket Cricket" follows London (Rochelle Mendigorin),who inherits a cottage after her mother's passing. Seeking solace, she grapples with grief whi...