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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.

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.

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.

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An animated work consisting of five chapters, each employing a distinct technique. It features the improvisational use of various materials—such as children's drawing boards, clay, and flipbooks—to unfold the visuals. Animals and bizarre, grotesque characters appear and rapidly morph into new forms, all while interweaving sexual motifs. This work—characterized by a chain of imagery that defies expectation and a blend of the grotesque and the humorous—epitomizes the style of Seiko Otobe.

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

In the landscape of 20th-century music, only a handful of artists did more than perform - they reshaped the language of sound itself. Among them stands Azerbaijani pianist and composer Vagif Mustafazadeh, a singular figure who transformed cultural limitation into creative revolution.

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 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.

A perspective and reflection on the work of Gabriel Ferrandini.

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

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Experimental short by Jordan Belson.

An onslaught of messy abstract doodles drawn directly onto film, accompanied by music and periodically interrupted by various titles sarcastically alluding to some of the legal questions art is currently subjected to, particularly in relation to government grants or national distribution.

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 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.

British series stressing the role of, and showing different kinds of, improvisation in music. Produced for UK's Channel Four. Written and narrated by Derek Bailey.

When a serial killer named Max comes to the conclusion he's at the end of his game, he decides to leave voice mails for his mom, confessing to her all the heinous crimes he's committed.

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When a man's only son goes missing, he travels to the town where his ex-wife lives in search of answers. [To play a man whose life is clouded by mystery, McAvoy will not be given a script of dialogue.]

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.

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

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.

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.

Robert and Klaudia are a young Polish couple stuck in a rut, wondering what to do with their careers and relationship. When Klaudia’s old friend, Filip, shows up along with eccentric Wera, they purpose them a mutual Eurotrip. It might be the spark they all need to find out what they really want to do so they hit the road where they reevaluate their lives, loves and future plans.

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.

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.

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.

Two filmmakers must set aside their history to film a crucial scene. Egos clash and tensions rise as everything unravels before day's end. A film that could only have been made once, shot sequentially, without takes, always in character.

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.

Two young strangers meet in Naples and begin to flirt and dance in the street.

The 'bertsolari' is a kind of minstrel sings and improvises verses in Basque. This oral tradition has evolved with the times and connecting with younger generations, getting to meet at the end of the last championship to 14 thousand people. An austere aesthetic art of surprising in this age of spectacle and special effects.

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

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Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti gives the girl a new home for an uncertain period of time. However, Walter is concerned that they may be accused of kidnapping the girl, and he plans to report Asia's presence to the police. . Patty receives a letter from the mother in which she announces that she will collect the girl two days later. They have a farewell party, but the mother does not show up.

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.

With noise-canceling headphones, they communicate with an inaudible counterpart. Decoupled, they move around the room and meet their surroundings. Intimate stories and needs are discussed. The personal blends into a shared portrait.

When Jonas loses his job at a Hamburg startup company, he doesn’t have the heart to tell his girlfriend Katharina, as her nerves are already on the edge with her final law exams coming up. Every morning he leaves their flat and drift aimless through the metropole on endless underground rides. After a chance meeting with his former boss Marc, Jonas starts to observe the young manager. His curiosity gradually turns into obsession, small and bigger everyday lies become a kind of survival strategy for Jonas. While Katharina notices his increasingly odd behavior, Jonas is losing control over events more and more. Flood deals with feelings of powerlessness of the individual facing a growing competitive and performance pressure. The fear of failing in a perceived competition of life kicks off a spiral of wrong decisions, with no apparent way out. Georg Pelzer’s debut was shot basing on a 20-page plot description, dialogues and actions where improvised with the actors on location.