With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
Direction
Alex Winter spent years in the vault—obsessive love letter.
Editing
Zappa himself would approve of this anti-narrative structure.
Production
Crowdfunded by 10,000 fans who refused to let this disappear.
Director
Alex Winter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Vault' contained so much material that Zappa's family joked it had its own weather system—temperature and humidity controlled for decades.
Zappa's 1985 testimony before Congress against music censorship remains one of the most eloquent defenses of free expression in American history—and he brought his entire family.
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