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Ornette: Made in America

4/10/2015,22:00,Δαναός 1

If you’re looking for a conventional documentary, then you’re in the wrong place. In one of the best films of its kind, Clarke highlights free jazz pioneer  Ornette Coleman, turning his confessions, his vision, his fantasies and his live performances into a feverish, spectacular portrait. 

By putting together material, gathered in twenty years, around the absolute pioneer of experimental jazz, the famous sax player Ornette Coleman, Clarke manages in her last film to deliver one of the top music films of all times.
Less of a conventional documentary and more of an impressionistic attempt to represent a music genius and the inner world, Clarke’s film brings together concert extracts and confessions by the artist himself with wistful representations of his life and convulsive editing in an effort to imitate his jazz improvisions.
The result is an inspired and vibrant collage of images, sounds and ideas, far from anything we have been used to seeing in traditional cinema biographies, having in the leading role one of the greatest music geniuses of the 20th century. In Clarke’s hands, Ornette Coleman is confronted with a portrait worthy of his intense improvisions and unconventional spirit.


Ornette, Made In America/Ορνέτ Κόλμαν: Made in... from NyxtesPremieras

Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Shirley Clarke
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Ed Lachman
Μουσική / Music
Ornette Coleman
Μοντάζ / Editor
Shirley Clarke
Εμφανίζονται / Featuring
Ornette Coleman, Prime Time
Gene Tatum, Ed Blackwell
Denardo Coleman, William Burroughs

ΗΠΑ / USA
1985
Εγχρωμο και Ασπρόμαυρο / Color and B&W
DCP
78'
Αγγλικά / English



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