THE CENTRAL SCRUTINIZERS
ALEX WINTER
The documentary’s director and lifelong Zappa fan, Alex Winter, is probably better known to the world as Bill S Preston, Esq from the Bill & Ted movies. Zappa was a labour of love that took years to complete, and two key elements to its existence were a successful fundraising campaign and, more crucially, unlimited access to Zappa’s infamous vault – an enormous autobiographical archive of film, video and audio.
How did you begin your work with the archives?
“Access to the vault began a two-year process of doing excavation and preservation work on the media that was down there before we even got around to being able to make the film. It was a mammoth undertaking. Thankfully, it’s media that we were really happy to be
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