Frank Scheffer Trailers

Hexagon Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

A compilation of six standalone short films, each inspired by a contemporary Dutch music composition and created as part of a collaboration between Nederlandse film directors and composers for a Holland Festival presentation.

Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note Trailer (2002)

20 June 2002

Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from Malcolm McNab's private achive.

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die Trailer (2000)

02 July 2000

Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa.

A Labyrinth of Time Trailer (2004)

17 June 2004

Carefully composed portrait of prominent modern composer Elliott Carter (1908-1912). Scheffer depicts both the person and the development in his music and the musical tradition it grew out of, as well as the time in which the American Carter grew up.

Intensely Soulful: Docu-Concert Trailer (2023)

20 November 2023

Music and the artists that create it are recurring themes in the work of filmmaker Frank Scheffer. He has created a unique 90-minute docu-concert for IDFA on Stage, in which excerpts from his latest feature-length documentary (working title: Intensely Soulful) are weaved together with live music by the musicians featured in the film.

Ring Trailer (2000)

01 January 2000

Against the background of this short film in which he includes a complete Wagner cycle as a music video in four minutes, Scheffer shows in Ring many composers and conductors who have played a major role in twentieth-century music.

Eclat Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

Eclat is a fascinating documentary about the work. We witness rehearsals by the Netherlands' Nieuw Ensemble, hear comments about the piece from the composer, conductor Ed Spanjaard and some of the musicians, and we see a full performance of the work.

Tea Trailer (2005)

29 January 2005

Director Scheffer registered a performance of the Tea Opera by Chinese composer Tan Dun (who won an Oscar in 2001 with his score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon).

Conducting Mahler Trailer (2002)

06 June 2002

Documents the interpretations of Gustav Mahler's compositions by conductors Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado, and Simon Rattle, who detail the special relationship they have with Mahler's work.

Gustav Mahler: I Have Lost Touch with the World Trailer (2004)

01 January 2004

A documentary based on Gustav Mahler's 9th Symphony. Riccardo Chailly is conducting and analyzing the four movements of the symphony.

Dutch masters: Frans Zwartjes Trailer (2015)

21 August 2015

In 1968 Zwartjes was one of the first Dutch visual artists to make use of film: initially as a record of his performances, but quite soon after as an independent medium, perfectly suited to his way of creating visual art.

In the Ocean Trailer (1999)

02 July 1999

In this unique documentary, Dutch filmmaker Frank Scheffer trains his lens on the groundbreaking music group Bang on a Can, capturing the band's performance of Brian Eno's ethereal composition "Music for Airports" at the 1999 Holland Festival.

Varese, the One All Alone Trailer (2009)

11 September 2009

Described by writer Henry Miller as “the stratospheric colossus of sound”, French sonic alchemist Edgard Varèse (1883 - 1965) continues to influence music even 40 years after his death.

Zoetrope People Trailer (1982)

01 January 1982

The Nature of Space Trailer (1993)

29 April 1993

In The Nature of Space, Frank Scheffer juxtaposes the ideas of two Dutch architects: the Benedictine monk Dom H.

Gozaran: Time Passing Trailer (2012)

06 June 2012

It is the dream of the Persian avant-garde composer Nader Mashayekhi to bring modern classical music to his country Iran.

Half Moon Trailer (2025)

06 March 2025

An elegiac documentary following virtuosic clarinettist and composer Kinan Azmeh, a Damascus-born musician living in exile, as he attempts to find meaning and purpose after the outbreak of war in Syria.

In the Ocean Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

A brief overview and focus on composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, John Cage, Steve Reich, Elliott Carter and their contemporaries.

De Waarneming Trailer (2016)

31 January 2016

An intense portrait of the painter Robert Zandvliet that moves through his studio and his head. While the artist explains what interests him about a painting, we see him at work: mixing paints, stretching canvas, trying out different brushes, but above all being concentrated and busy at length.

Attrazione D'Amore/Voyage to Cythera Trailer (1998)

01 November 1998

Attrazione d'Amore is a touching illustration of the unique relation that has developed between the Conductor Riccardo Chailly and his famous Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Music for Airports Trailer (1999)

01 January 1999

A video work accompanying Bang on a Can All-Stars' 1998 live performance of Brian Eno's Music for Airports.

John Cage: From Zero Trailer (1995)

01 December 1995

A fascinating study of merging form with content, broken into four shorts, each complete with opening title and closing credits: "19 Questions," "Fourteen," "Paying Attention," and "Overpopulation and Art.