| Filmworks VI: 1996 | |
| Type: | Soundtrack |
| Artist: | John Zorn |
| Cover: | Filmworks VI.jpg |
| Released: | 1996 |
| Recorded: | March 1 & 31, July 15, 1996 |
| Genre: | avant-garde, jazz, classical |
| Length: | 75:49 |
| Label: | Tzadik |
| Producer: | John Zorn |
| Chronology: | John Zorn |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands |
| Next Year: | 1997 |
Filmworks VI: 1996 features three scores for film by John Zorn. The album was released on Zorn's own label, Tzadik Records, in 1996.[1] It features the music that Zorn wrote and recorded for Anton, Mailman (1996), a short film directed by Dina Waxman that was never completed due to loss of funding in its final stages, Mechanics of the Brain (1996) directed by Henry Hills and The Black Glove (1996), which was directed by, and starred, Maria Beatty.
The Allmusic review by Stacia Proefrock awarded the album 3 stars:
Anton, Mailman (1996, directed by Dina Waxman):
1/ Opening Credits/Hawaiian Postcard - 2:57
2/ Work-A-Day World (Anton's Theme) - 3:31
3/ Seductress - 4:18
4/ End Titles - 3:09
Mechanics Of The Brain (1996, directed by Henry Hills):
5/ Fireworks - 1:52
6/ Surgery Montage - 1:47
7/ Brain Scan - 1:05
8/ Witches' Cauldron - 3:47
9/ Houdini - 3:12
10/ Subliminal Perceptions - 1:45
11/ Measuring - 1:34
12/ MacBeth - 3:05
13/ Pendulum - 2:05
14/ Mechanics Of The Brain - 1:58
The Black Glove (1996, directed by Maria Beatty):
15/ Part One (Hot) - 19:47
16/ Part Two (Cold) - 7:44
All compositions by John Zorn