
Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

Steve Allen
Self (archive footage)
Jimmy Carl Black
Self (archive footage)

Pierre Boulez
Self (archive footage)
Thomas Braden
Self (archive footage)