John Zorn Movies

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...

MECHANICS OF THE BRAIN is an experimental film in the form of a scientific documentary. A "remake" of the documentary film of the same name by...

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

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

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

A job like any other, for those who get up, go to bed, and collect their money.

Animated film that turns the viewer into a floating voyeur, snatching brief but compelling glimpses of peoples' private worlds beyond the window...

The life of the old horse comes to end behind that - the death. But before the death, the fortune gives him the last fantastic vision which opens the...

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...

John Zorn's live performance of Naked City's self-titled album at The Marquee Club in New York City, 1992.

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

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...

Agatha is an international lawyer, Jo a filmmaker. The two women are lovers. While Jo is on the road showing her films, Agatha discovers and reads...

A whirlwind of improvisation combines the images of animator Pierre Hébert with the avant-garde sound of techno whiz Bob Ostertag in this...

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

— The term "KiyaKiya" comes from the old Japanese expression "mune ga kiyakiya suru." I first encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko's book...

An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

Part Two of John Zorn's COBRA (see April 16 for Part One).

B-movies, industrial films, TV commercials, home movies, animation, and softcore porn have been collected and reassembled into a fractured noir...