Les Blank

A musical portrait of Zydeco King Clifton Chenier, who combines the pulsating rhythms of Cajun dance music and black R&B with African ...

Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians “Bois Sec” Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant ...

A musical portrait of Texas blues songster Mance Lipscomb.

Another short documentary of “Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do!”, Spend It All is Les ...

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy ...

A musical portrait of Texas bluesman ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins. Preserved by the ...

Les Blank’s poetic documentation of 1967’s Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002.