Conversation

This programme tells the story behind the conception, recording and release of this groundbreaking album. By use of interviews, musical demonstration, performance, archive footage and returning to the multi tracks with Ahmet Zappa and Joe Travers we discover how Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention created the album with the help of legendary African- American producer Tom Wilson.

“For my film portrait of Sasha Grey, I wanted to focus on her expressive and psychological transformation into a cinematic actor, separate from the cues that have associated Sasha with her previous career as a performance artist working within the adult film world.” – Richard Phillips

The final 17 years of American singer and musician Karen Carpenter, performed almost entirely by modified Barbie dolls.

A surreal musical comedy set in a world where the avant-garde and the mainstream are reversed.

5 minute experimental film.

10 minute experimental film.

Tones rise and fall as images replicate and reorder, dizzying, nauseating -- vexing.

6 minute experimental film.

20 minute experimental film.

7 minute experimental film.

1 minute experimental film.

4 minute experimental film.

Perception becomes reality, forcing reality to lose perception, crash, and burn.

"a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement."

4 minute experimental film.

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.

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this singular multimedia experience, a hybrid of live animation and performance art.

An experimental film from Jirí Lehovec, mixing the sound process with animated rhythms.

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".