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- This Film is an intimate music portrait of American composer Frank Zappa, who lives secluded from the outside world at his home and music studio in Los Angeles, California. 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, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commitments. It is the first time that Zappa has allowed a film crew to study him during compositional work, actually filming the first moments of a new compositional process. By contrast, in a staged interview Zappa gives comments on music. This film seeks to reveal the sensetivities of Zappa's personality and character also beyond narrative content.
- A feature-length documentary film honoring the life and work of American composer and artist John Cage (1912-1992).
- World famous director and actor Dennis Hopper is one of the few great figures of the American "Author's Cinema". As a photographer and painter he has exhibited throughout America and Europe. We join Hopper on one of his regular excursions to the backlands of the greater Los Angeles area to discover through his photographic eye the city he has been living in for most of his life. Our film essay is a document to portray Hopper's artistic aesthetic and how the barren walls of the city of Los Angeles inspires the artist. We experience Hopper seclusively, when he goes to work alone, just with a photo camera; himself commenting on what he is seeing within the obvious, commonly known aspects of one of the world's great cities. Hopper takes us to the backstreets of Los Angeles, reveals to us the hidden language of graffitti, and of the cover-up "art" on the walls of his city. Images from "past encounters", news reel footage relating to the gang wars, riots, and the homeless in Los Angeles are inserted into the film narrative like flashbacks of sudden dream-like memories, embellishing Hopper's discourse.