Experimental Music Movies

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

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

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

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,...

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

An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa is an Italian documentary that aired on the Videomusic channel on January 7, 1994. It includes...

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,...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

Then, now, where? how?

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