Directed by Edward Bland • 1959 • United States
Starring George Waller, Dorothea Horton, Melinda Dillon

Featuring music by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, this landmark semi-documentary explores—via a heated conversation between a group of Black and white jazz aficionados—the relationship between jazz ...

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus • 1986 • United States

Redding, a venerable star of Memphis’s Stax record label, seduced the "love crowd" in one of his best, and last, performances. SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY, feature the entire set of this legendary musician, a performance that has ...

Directed by Les Blank • 1983 • United States

Fiddling legend Tommy Jarrell shares his gifts with a new generation.

Directed by Chris Cunningham • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Björk

Two machine-manufactured automatons experience a moment of tenderness in the music video for the single from Björk’s album “Homogenic.”

Directed by Charles Burnett • 1995 • United States

Charles Burnett paints a jazz- and poetry-inflected portrait of African American community and resilience via the story of a mother who enlists a musician’s help when she is evicted on New Year’s Day.

Directed by John Hubley • 1955 • United States
Starring Dizzy Gillespie

Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie is hired to record the soundtrack for a television commercial—but the music has a mind of its own in this irreverent blend of live-action and animation.

Directed by Stan Lathan • 1970 • United States

In this intimate portrait—produced for a segment of National Education Television's “Black Journal” television program—legendary jazz musician Alice Coltrane plays the harp and discusses her thoughts on music, spirituality, family, and the legacy of...

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1953 • United States

Shot in 1953, though not completed until 1957, DAYBREAK EXPRESS was the first film D. A. Pennebaker made, a mad rush of images of New York City captured from a train and edited to the rhythm of Duke Ellington’s song of the same name. A jazz afi...

Directed by Darol Olu Kae • 2023 • United States

The Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra (The Ark) has been a legend in Los Angeles’s avant-garde jazz community for over sixty years. But since the death of its founder, pianist and composer Horace Tapscott, the band has spent the last three decades ebbi...

Directed by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie • 2015 • France, Canada
Starring Jules Langlade

A boy channels his inner Michael Jackson in this experimental dance film set to a pulsing electro-pop beat.

Directed by Kazimierz Karabasz • 1960 • Poland

Presented here is THE MUSICIANS, by Kazimierz Karabasz. Karabasz was a teacher at the Lodz Film School, where director Krzysztof Kieślowski studied, and a great influence on the young filmmaker.

Directed by Hal Hartley • 1994 • United States
Starring Patricia Dunnock, Parker Posey, Adrienne Shelly

Mistaken identities, miscast spells, and rollerblades abound in this comical mini-opera following the exploits of two goddesses interfering with the lives of mortals.