John Zorn Movies

  • 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.62007HD

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  • 1987
    She Must Be Seeing Things

    She Must Be Seeing Things

    She Must Be Seeing Things

    5.21987HD

    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...

    She Must Be Seeing Things
  • 2009
    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper

    The Last Supper

    02009HD

    The Man goes to the encounter of the Woman in a mysterious place where creatures live. While making love to one of them, he becomes her by changing...

    The Last Supper
  • 2005
    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    5.92005HD

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

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
  • 2009
    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)

    02009HD

    An opera by John Zorn and Richard Foreman

    Astronome: A Night at the Opera (A Disturbing Initiation)
  • 2007
    Bhima Swarga: The Journey of the Soul from Hell to Heaven

    Bhima Swarga: The Journey of the Soul from Hell to Heaven

    Bhima Swarga: The Journey of the Soul from Hell to Heaven

    02007HD

    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...

    Bhima Swarga: The Journey of the Soul from Hell to Heaven
  • 1994
    Die Kunst des Erinnerns – Simon Wiesenthal

    Die Kunst des Erinnerns – Simon Wiesenthal

    Die Kunst des Erinnerns – Simon Wiesenthal

    01994HD

    This film by Johanna Heer and Werner Schmiedel represents a homage to a man revered internationally as one of the great humanitarians of the 20th...

    Die Kunst des Erinnerns – Simon Wiesenthal
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    102007HD

    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 2000
    Sabbath in Paradise

    Sabbath in Paradise

    Sabbath in Paradise

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

    Sabbath in Paradise
  • 1995
    Credits Included: A Video In Red And Green

    Credits Included: A Video In Red And Green

    Credits Included: A Video In Red And Green

    01995HD

    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...

    Credits Included: A Video In Red And Green
  • 1998
    The Port of Last Resort

    The Port of Last Resort

    The Port of Last Resort

    6.51998HD

    Documentary that follows the lives of several Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai during WWII.

    The Port of Last Resort
  • 1997
    Mechanics Of The Brain

    Mechanics Of The Brain

    Mechanics Of The Brain

    01997HD

    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...

    Mechanics Of The Brain
  • 2006
    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    Notes on Marie Menken

    5.42006HD

    A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.

    Notes on Marie Menken
  • 1993
    Thieves Quartet

    Thieves Quartet

    Thieves Quartet

    01993HD

    Art gathers the ex-prisoners Jimmy and Mike with his girlfriend Jessica and presents a plan for kidnapping the daughter of a millionaire. The plan...

    Thieves Quartet
  • 1995
    Tears of Ecstasy

    Tears of Ecstasy

    Tears of Ecstasy

    11995HD

    A conceptual pinku film by renowned experimental artist Hiroyuki Oki, which is conceived of 60 shots which all are 60 seconds long and represent an...

    Tears of Ecstasy
  • 1993
    Maohgai

    Maohgai

    Maohgai

    61993HD

    Kishi is a 37-year-old personnel officer and fairly happy with work, wife and child. But he turns out to be susceptible to a more exciting life....

    Maohgai
  • 2004
    Between Science and Garbage

    Between Science and Garbage

    Between Science and Garbage

    5.22004HD

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

    Between Science and Garbage
  • 2008
    Boy

    Boy

    Boy

    02008HD

    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...

    Boy
  • 2020
    Generació Kibbutz

    Generació Kibbutz

    Generació Kibbutz

    02020HD

    Generació Kibbutz
  • 2002
    Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII

    Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII

    Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII

    02002HD

    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...

    Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers During WWII