Ornette Coleman

Looking for Ornette (2018)

"Jacques Goldstein goes on a quest for a spectre, a spectre that haunts Jazz. Who was Ornette Coleman, the saxophonist and composer ' If his seminal body of work is now - rightfully so - fully recognized, the man remained deliberately mysterious and enigma ...

Ornette Coleman (2018)

"Saxophonist, artist and Whitehot Magazine publisher Noah Becker visited music legend Ornette Coleman at his music studio in New York City. The following film is the result of that interaction. ...

Charles Lloyd - Arrows Into Infinity (2014)

A journey in sound through the unusual life and career of jazz legend Charles Lloyd. Lloyd's own voice, and those who worked with him over the last five decades help us discover and better understand this enigmatic man and his spiritual pursuit through mus ...

Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes (2012)

Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes uses his 80th birthday concert to look into the man and his music. ...

365 Day Project (2007)

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas' 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were ...

An Introduction to Harmolodics (1995)

Ornette Coleman is always asked, "what is Harmolodics?" Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided to do a short film about Harmolodics. A few artists were in enlisted, including Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, ...

Ornette Coleman and Prime Time & Pat Metheny: Live in Montreal (1988)

Ornette: Made in America (1986)

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman. ...

Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game (1984)

In this short, magical film experiment, Shirley Clarke interprets the musical universe of jazz giant Ornette Coleman in best Afrofuturist tradition. With breathless echo effects, superimpositions and artificial light reflections, younger versions of Colema ...

Chappaqua (1966)

Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran. Though initially confusing, as Rooks blends drug-illusion with reality, and cuts color with black- ...

All Magic Sands/Chappaqua (2013)

The story centres on an orphaned quartet (boy, two girls, a baby) washed ashore on a desert island in what just might be the Bahamas. There, they encounter a pile of branches that transforms into a dubious Jesus-esque bearded man, as well as a doppelganger ...

The Sparrow and the Tigress (2010)

A young actor steps into the shadows of a Coney Island underworld where past, present, reality and fantasy collide. ...

An Introduction to Harmolodics (1995)

Ornette Coleman is always asked, "what is Harmolodics?" Harmolodics is the term he coined to describe his music and his philosophy of life. He decided to do a short film about Harmolodics. A few artists were in enlisted, including Lou Reed, Thurston Moore, ...

Naked Lunch (1991)

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills J ...

Ornette: Made in America (1986)

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman. ...

Detective (1985)

Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that ...

Repression (1969)

The important L.A. Newsreel film about the Black Panthers that was rediscovered and written about by USC professor David James. Featured in the film is rare footage of many of the important West Coast Panthers such as Masai Hewitt, David Hilliard, Alprenti ...

Population Explosion (1968)

A film in cut-out animation depicting the demographic problems of the world. It shows that in many countries freedom from the old scourges of famine and disease has in turn created the new problem of more mouths to feed. The film suggests that wealthier na ...

Who's Crazy? (1965)

Insane asylum inmates escape their confinement and hole up in a deserted Belgian farmhouse, where they cook large quantities of eggs and condemn one of their own in an impromptu court. Accompanied by a frenetic original soundtrack by the great Ornette Cole ...

Catalog (1961)

Collection of Computer Graphic effects. ...