Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy
Soundtrack album by John Zorn
Released	1996
Recorded	October 1, 1995
Studio	Shelley Palmer Studio, New York City
Genre	avant-garde, jazz, classical
Length	57:08
Label	Tzadik
Producer	John Zorn
Filmworks chronology
Filmworks IV: S&M + More (1997) Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy (1996) Filmworks VI: 1996 (1997)
John Zorn chronology
Masada: Zayin (1996) Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy (1996) Filmworks VI: 1996 (1996)

Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy is a film score 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 the movie Tears of Ecstasy (1995) by director Oki Hiroyuki.

The Allmusic review by Joslyn Layne awarded the album 3 stars noting that "There are small instances of theme recurrence throughout the album, but Film Works, Vol. 5 is mostly an entertaining musical ride".^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

All compositions by John Zorn

1. "Factor" - 1:02
2. "Intercept" - 1:13
3. "Lemma" - 1:18
4. "Root" - 1:06
5. "Net" - 1:19
6. "Lie Group" - 1:10
7. "Reduction" - 1:03
8. "Trisectrix of MacLaurin" - 1:07
9. "Interpolation" - 1:09
10. "Gradients" - 1:16
11. "Random Walk" - 1:27
12. "Cusp" - 1:04
13. "Region" - 1:07
14. "Block" - 1:09
15. "Prediction" - 1:09
16. "Concordance" - 1:13
17. "Modulus" - 1:01
18. "Addition" - 1:08
19. "Ergodicity" - 1:24
20. "Prism" - 1:15
21. "Mean Difference" - 2:13
22. "Likelihood" - 1:18
23. "Deviation" - 1:02
24. "Curl" - 1:12
25. "Probable Error" - 1:24
26. "Limit" - 1:09
27. "Youden Square" - 1:19
28. "Tensor" - 1:06
29. "Martingale" - 1:05
30. "Tantochrone" - 1:07
31. "Witch of Agnesi" - 1:14
32. "Rank" - 0:58
33. "Quadrature" - 1:03
34. "Discriminant" - 1:23
35. "Rose Curve" - 1:07
36. "Lituus" - 1:04
37. "Involute" - 1:06
38. "Catearies" - 1:12
39. "Folium" - 1:20
40. "Edge Train" - 1:16
41. "Ruled Surface" - 1:14
42. "Slope" - 1:03
43. "Cluster" - 1:06
44. "Spiral" - 1:16
45. "Octal" - 1:07
46. "Cissoid of Diocles" - 1:15
47. "Arc" - 1:26
48. "Pole" - 1:21

• Recorded at Shelley Palmer Studio, New York City on October 1, 1995

• Robert Quine – guitar
• Marc Ribot – guitar
• Cyro Baptista – percussion
• John Zorn – alto saxophone, prepared piano, samples
• Jason Baker – vocal