Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music - Parts 1 & 2

Film Information:
Year:

2006

Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music - Parts 1 & 2

País:

 

Director:

Frank Scheffer

Color:

Color + B&W

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

108 min

Cast:

  • Gail Zappa, Dweezil Zappa, George Duke, Steve Vai

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Frank Scheffer
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Melle van Essen, Rene van der Eijk, Frank Scheffer
  • MONTAJE: Riekje Ziengs
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Frank Scheffer

Contact:

  • Allegri Film
  • Frank Scheffer
  • P/A Bloemstraat 42 III
  • 1016 LC Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • T +31 641 390 657
  • E schefferfrank@hotmail.com

Synopsis

I see all my films?as one “symphony”, one “composition”, one “note” if you want. I think about them?as a process of making films in a more cyclic way. I decided that I wanted to make a film project about Frank Zappa when, in 2000, the Holland Festival focused on his work, to give him back the honour of what he did for me in my early years. In 2002 I made Frank Zappa: The Big Note, and in 2007 I finished the two part TV series Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music - Parts 1 & 2. Part one is an overview of the first twenty years of his career, and I conceived part two as a “band”. It consists of portraits of some of the great members of his band through the years, people like George Duke, Steve Vai, Terry Bozzio, Bruce and Tom Fowler, etc., leading up to the concert tour of his son Dweezil Zappa named “Zappa plays Zappa”. I see all of the Zappa-films as a kind of rehearsal and part of a process that I hope will lead to a feature length documentary. Frank Zappa: A Pioneer of the Future of Music - Parts 1 & 2 was only presented at Dutch Television in 2007 and thereafter never shown at any other film festival. Now finally in Buenos Aires, I want to show this “work in process” in juxtaposition with Varèse: The One All Alone.

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