Zen Violence Films Movie Trailers

Shadow Axe Trailer (2024)

07 April 2024

The electric guitar has been the most iconic instrument of musical inspiration and social change for almost one hundred years.

Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty Trailer (2017)

23 March 2017

Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and melancholia.

Sitka: A Piano Documentary Trailer (2015)

10 December 2015

The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. has been presenting concerts alongside its paintings since 1941.

Beside Myself Trailer (2024)

09 November 2024

Step outside yourself, look back at yourself, whom do you see? That’s the question Bob Holman asks in his poem “Beside Myself.

Facing West Trailer (2020)

01 February 2020

A cinematic setting of poems by Walt Whitman that span his whole life's work, commemorating his bicentennial year.

Quartet for the End of Time Trailer (2017)

15 January 2017

A music documentary about Olivier Messiaen's transcendent masterpiece, that he composed in a World War II prison camp, and debuted there on January 15, 1941.

György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes Trailer (2020)

24 February 2020

Video documentation of György Ligeti’s "Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes," presented by the 21st Century Consort on December 22, 2020 in Washington, D.

The Passion of Scrooge Trailer (2018)

08 December 2018

Is this a film about Scrooge? About a composer’s life? An opera within an opera? The Passion of Scrooge blurs these lines between performance, documentary, and fiction, into a cinematic concert experience that’s seasoned with magical reality.

Panorama Trailer (2023)

23 April 2023

A musician's journey through the urban landscapes of New York City, collecting postcards of her Italn