Info

Role

Director | Writer

Date of birth

1956

Place of birth

Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands

Frank Scheffer

Biography

Frank Scheffer has directed over 40 music documentaries and experimental films, for which he has received numerous awards and recognitions. Image and sound combine in Scheffer’s films to offer the audience a unique sensory experience, and his films have featured prominent postwar composers like Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Frank Zappa. A retrospective of Scheffer’s work was featured at the MoMA.