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Improvisational jazz performance filmed in 1950 by Gjon Mili plus Duke Ellington Trio filmed in July 1966, Count Basie at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977, Joe Pass 1979, Ella Fitzgerald 1979, and Oscar Peterson at the Montreux Jazz Festival 1977.

An improvised jazz session with some of the greats from the 1950s era including Ella Fitzgerald.

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Elliot, a young photographer who aspires for wealth and fame in the fine art world, discovers a mysterious file that foretells a life of professional failure and uncovers a conspiracy to sabotage his success. By choosing anonymous artistic fulfillment over fame, he cheats his bleak destiny and finds unexpected happiness.

A documentary portrait of one of the world's superstars of Jazz, pianist Keith Jarrett, exploring his life and work.

"A propos de l'improvisation" is the title of an episode of the French TV talk show series Un Certain Regard which ran from 1964-1975.

The enterprising head physician rents out places in the resort hospital to quite healthy vacationers. Fearing inspections, he keeps his “imaginary patients” under the strictest regime, prohibiting them from even going to the bathroom. So, a young teacher and a pensioner meet, who were coming here to bask in the sun and swim in the sea...

A film about the famous jazzman Igor Butman. How did a boy from Soviet Leningrad manage to step into the big world of jazz music? And what role did Sergei Kuryokhin, Dave Brubeck, Winton Marsalis and Bill Clinton play in his life? The details of rehearsals and concerts, the secrets of family traditions, the frank stories of the musician's friends create an interesting picture of the being of a person striving for his dream. Multiple world champion Vyacheslav Fetisov, prominent jazzmen David Goloshchekin and Nikolai Levinovsky, singer Sergei Mazayev and many other public figures and art masters take part in the film.

A documentary programme about the contemporary Icelandic composer Atli Heimir Sveinsson.

Young woman confesses from her inner trauma and fears from surveillance as an experience of her movement through the city. Those are generated during the time of lockdown and social distancing.

In the following documentary, produced in 2016, actor Tim Robbins, author and screenwriter Michael Tolkin, production designer Stephen Altman, and associate producer David Levy discuss the making of THE PLAYER and Robert Altman’s unique approach to directing.

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A troop of improvising clowns deceives an unsuspecting audience.

Documentary about a Jewish senior citizens' acting group on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The film covers both the progress and impediments of a play the group is mounting about senior citizens looking for love and the life/love stories (past, present, and predictions) of the players.

An important audio-visual record of a landmark series of four concerts staged in London in 2022 when more than 30 musicians joined improviser, percussionist and animateur Eddie Prévost to mark his 80th birthday. The film takes a close look at improvisers who create music in the moment, free from the authority of a composer, score or conductor. Ranging from profound delicacy to subversive atonality, the “awkward wealth” of this music raises vital questions about artistic freedom, individual responsibility and what it means for people to make music together in the 21st Century. Featuring performances by John Butcher, Sue Lynch, Ute Kanngiesser, Marjolaine Charbin, Nathan Moore, Seymour Wright, Veryan Weston, Alan Wilkinson, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost amongst others. Plus readings by musician and author David Toop. The film includes the last ever concert by AMM, the pioneering improvising group co-founded by Eddie Prévost in the mid-1960s.

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Brett Garsed is known for his work with multi-platinum artists such as John Farnham, Olivia Newton-John and Nelson as well as his albums with TJ Helmerich, Frank Gambale and Shawn Lane. Here Brett give up-close demonstrations of his hybrid picking technique, left hand legato and also his unique approach to slide guitar as well as improvisation concepts for the intermediate to advanced rock/fusion guitarist. With over 40 minutes of live footage as well as 1 hour of personal tuition, this DVD is a must for the thinking musician.

An optical experiment with the idea of a visual drone which builds from a study of a famous all night grocery store in Hollywood.

Join acclaimed dance innovator, Margaret Beals, in her exploration of the art of improvisation. In this short documentary, Ms. Beals demonstrates the power and authenticity of improvisation as performance and also as a tool of discovery for any creative endeavor.

Improvisation no. 1: Cumulative Loops is the audio-visual artifact of an improvisation in hand-drawn animation and musical collage.

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the unconventional stance of this media-shy modern musical genius, regarded as one of the true giants of post-war music. Seated at his beloved and battered piano in his Brooklyn brownstone the maestro holds court with frequent stentorian pronouncements on life, art and music.

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.

On the heels of their enormously popular TV show, the Upright Citizens Brigade (Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, Matt Walsh) bring you Asssscat - an unparalleled improv comedy juggernaut. Beginning with a suggestion from the audience, a guest monologist tells a story that kicks off a series of high-octane improvised sketches. From medical marijuana to embarrassing sexual encounters, no topic is off limits to the renegade performers who have helped make Asssscat one of the longest running improv shows in the history of the world.

The Grand is in the tradition of improvisational comedies like Best In Show and This Is Spinal Tap. The story is set in the world of professional poker and follows six players who reach the final table of the world’s second most famous high stakes tournament, the Grand Championship of Poker.

Plans for an arranged marriage between the beauteous young Juliet and the wealthy but off-putting Count Paris are thrown awry when Juliet falls for Romeo, the son of her father's only enemy. Their romance will yield explosive passions — and deadly consequences.

Things go badly for a small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie when they are attacked by real zombies.

A successful psychoanalyst's life is turned upside down by a very anxious and extremely clingy patient who starts dating his daughter.

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

Dissatisfied with the dishonesty they see in dating, strangers Naima and Sergio make a pact to spend 24 straight hours together in an attempt to fast forward their relationship.

An improv group deals with several crises, including the loss of their lease and one member hitting the big time.

Rafael, a Seville citizen who has never left the Spanish region of Andalucia, decides to leave his homeland to follow Amaia, a Basque girl unlike other women he has known.

Chelsea Bledsoe and her husband Graig throw a surprise intervention for her old high school boyfriend, Henry, with a mismatched group of acquaintances from back in the day to fill out the guest list.

A salesman and a sexologist have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.

Five years into performing as renowned filmmaker George Lucas in the cult comedy show "The George Lucas Talk Show", comedian Connor Ratliff questions the need for its continuation and his own drive for success and fulfillment in show business.

Several comic greats pay tribute to the legendary stand-up stage founded by Budd Friedman in 1963.

In 1989, a collective of young hip hop artists gathered at a health food café in South Central Los Angeles. Their mandate? To reject gang culture and expand the musical boundaries of hip hop. DuVernay's documentary chronicles the historic legacy of the Good Life Cafe — the open mic nights that became an L.A. institution, the eclectic array of talented young MCs that emerged there, the alternative hip hop movement they developed, and their worldwide influence on the artform.

"All-Stars" is a hilarious commentary on the state of all youth sports today, fueled by the outrageous behavior of the desperate sports parent living vicariously through his or her child. In the vein of "Best in Show", where it's more about the dog owners than the dogs - "All-Stars" is about the adults involved in youth sports (parents, coaches, umpires, volunteers, board members, etc.) more than the kids. The end result is a funny, yet compelling spin on fast pitch softball as well as a unique state of affairs on the outlandish antics of a few crazed parents.

Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue!

Determined to build a new life for himself, a young man returns home to find work and a place to live and struggles to not fall back in with his old crowd.