Sponsored by Bridget Downey Meyer
Director Alex Winter and his team have crafted a documentary from over a thousand hours from Zappa’s personal vault. Made with the approval and cooperation of the Zappa estate and narrated by Zappa’s own words, Zappa is an expansive and intimate portrait of an extraordinary and genuinely maverick musician/artist who was also fully engaged with the turbulent politics of his day. Zappa charts the late icon’s career as a self-taught teenaged musician with a taste for the avant-garde to his pioneering Mothers of Invention and his many musical left turns, as well as his censorship battle with the Parents Music Resource Center and the productive years prior to his death.
Note: As a bonus, immediately following the film you can watch a live Zappa performance and backstage footage, released from the Zappa vaults for the first time. This bonus footage is exclusive to this virtual cinema event
- “Zappa will immerse you in the mind of a genius, and you may never be the same again.” ~ Peter Keough, The Boston Globe