Experimental Music Movies

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

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

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

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

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,...

A group of geeky teens in backwoods New Hampshire start a punk band as a way to make sense of their high school angst, raging hormones, and raucous...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

An important audio-visual record of a landmark series of four concerts staged in London in 2022 when more than 30 musicians joined improviser,...

Who gets the idea to write “Nine unfinished symphonies” - one of them perhaps the shortest Symphony in music history? Or "1001...

"Lysreisen" is an experimental art film, a visual ode to tunnel lights. Its ethereal beauty and abstract visuals create a poetic journey, exploring...

Then, now, where? how?

Recorded Live in Paris in 1980, this is a rare recording of Frank Zappa performing at the peak of his career with his incredible backing band,...

Impressions about fighting the passing of time, living in a constant hurry and the uphill battle of finding the natural tempo to life itself.

Live at the Duchess of York in Leeds, November 1992. Limited numbered edition VHS with a nylon stocking.

Over two hours of rare performances, interviews, animations, and experimental video. Milton Babbit’s discussion of the difficulties of working...