Jazz Movies

A Vitaphone musical performance featuring Xavier Cugat and his ensemble.

Thelonious Monk entered a long phase of introspection and cancelled his concert schedule after 1968. He disbanded his quartet with Charlie Rouse,...

Inspired by Edvard Munch's "Hands"

The recording process of musician Nilufer Akdogu's Turkish jazz album Aristo'ya Inat (Against Aristotle). The film presents the musical searches...

Did you look at the sun for too long, until the shapes of the surrounding world stretched and the colors became distorted? In this music documentary,...

The musical traditions of the eastern and western worlds are bridged through the improvisations of Bombay, India-born percussionist/vocalist Trilok...

A short documentary on jazz trombonist, Ryan Porter.

Multi-faceted artist Phil Niblock captures a brief moment of an interstellar communication by the Arkestra in their prime. Black turns white in a...

Made on a wind-up Bolex camera, The Sound of Seeing announced the arrival of 21-year-old filmmaker Tony Williams. Based around a painter and a...

Folk-jazz composer/arranger Arthur Verocai was born in Rio de Janeiro. He has created challenging arragements and compositions for Brazilian artists...

A live recording of a jazz concert dedicated to the memory of Karel Růžička, who was the teacher of pianist and composer...

Boring Days are supposed to be awesome, but Mr.Boring is having a "boring" Boring Day.

An abstract, minimalistic showpiece of late structuralist film made up of 360-degree pans across a children’s playground – and to one of...

The young American Pablo Menéndez came to Cuba to study Music at the National School of Art. Here he formed a family and became one more...

In a wordless story with semi-surreal stage sets, a poor black man ventures from his ramshackle rural home to the big city, where a dancing girl in a...

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers features what many consider to be one of the fi nest line-ups in the history of jazz—Bobby Timmons...

Spark of Being, a close adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic novel Frankenstein, explores the thematic interchangeability of three of the...

When four jazz musicians—trumpeter Serge Adam, pianist Benoît Delbecq, bassist Francky Mwele, and drummer Emile Biayenda—prepare...