Movies: Fred Frith
- 1995
Before Sunrise (1995)
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A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together....
- 1992
Orlando (1992)
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England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request....
- 2001
Rivers and Tides (2001)
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Portrait of Andy Goldsworthy, an artist whose specialty is ephemeral sculptures made from elements of nature....
- 1997
The Tango Lesson (1997)
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On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their ...
- 1990
Step Across the Border (1990)
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An avant-garde documentary film on English guitarist, composer and improviser Fred Frith....
- 2002
A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky: 12 Stories About John Zorn (2002)
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A rare peek into the working methods of John Zorn. Filmed over a ten year period, this documentary includes live footage of Masada, Naked City, Cobra, as well as improvisations, his classical work and rare interviews. A prize winner at European festi...
- 1991
Eastern Cross (1991)
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OSTKREUZ tells the episodic story of 15-year-old Elfie, who literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The film deploys a neorealist aesthetic to reinforce the difficulti...
- 1989
The Top of His Head (1989)
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Satellite dish salesman Gus experiences some life-altering changes when he meets performance artist Lucy in this visually poetic fantasy. After Lucy vanishes, leaving a puzzling note, Gus goes on a quest for the mysterious woman. Moving from his meti...
- 2002
Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002)
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Filmmaker Peter Mettler embarks on a mission that takes him around the world. He is determined to record the diverse modes of transcendence that people in different cultures adopt in order to live life to the fullest. As he traverses civilization and...
- 2016
Zen for Nothing (2016)
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Hidden in the wooded mountains on the west coast of Japan lies the small Zen monastery Antaiji. A young woman sets off to immerse herself through autumn, winter and spring in the adventures of monastic life. The young woman is Sabine Timoteo from Swi...
- 2007
Attwenger Adventure (2007)
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- 2009
Rage (2009)
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A schoolboy uses his cellphone camera to shoot intimate interviews with people working at a New York fashion house and secretly posts them on the internet. Result: a bitterly funny expose of an industry in crisis, during a week in which an accident o...
- 2018
Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy (2018)
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Thomas Riedelsheimer’s landmark Rivers and Tides inventively documented artist Andy Goldsworthy as he created his wondrously ephemeral site-specific sculptures, spun from nature. Fifteen years later, Goldsworthy is still appealingly engaged in his ph...
- 2004
Touch the Sound (2004)
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A documentary which explores the connections among sound, rhythm, time, and the body by following percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who is nearly deaf....
- 2015
Last Day of Freedom (2015)
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When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision to call the police....
- 1992
Thea und Nat (1992)
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- 2011
Between Two Worlds (2011)
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'Between Two Worlds' is a personal exploration of the community and family divisions that are redefining American Jewish identity and politics. The filmmakers own families are battlegrounds over loyalty to Israel, interpretations of the Holocaust, in...
- 1995
Middle of the Moment (1995)
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Filmmakers Nicolaus Humbert and Werner Penzel examine the nature of nomadic existence in this documentary, from the literal nomads of North Africa to the more metaphorical kind of wanderer, such as American poet and ex-pat Robert Lax. Humbert and Pen...
- 1994
Little Lieutenant (1994)
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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 Zorn's arrangement of the Kurt Weill song, "Little Lieutenant of the Loving God", and drawing its imag...
- 2011
Fritz Hauser: Sound Explorer (2011)
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A documentary about experimental drummer Fritz Hauser....