The man who made the Mothers of Invention mother all other genres.
Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April 22,2007. Most of what’s on here is seen before, particularly in Roelof Kier’s 1971 documentary and/or Scheffer’s own documentary “A present day composer refuses to die”. But there is some new stuff too, particularly interviews with Denny Walley, Haskell Wekler, Elliot Ingber and Bruce Fowler.
Direction
Scheffer's collage style mirrors Zappa's own fragmented, obsessive creativity.
Production
Rare archival footage that diehards will treasure like holy grail tapes.
Director
Frank Scheffer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Much of this footage originally appeared in Roelof Kier's 1971 documentary and Scheffer's own 2000 film 'A Present Day Composer Refuses to Die'—making this essentially a Zappa remix of a Zappa documentary.
VPRO's dedication to avant-garde programming made the Netherlands one of the few places that took Zappa seriously as a contemporary composer during his lifetime, not just a provocateur.
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