Synopsis:
Ornette: Made In America captures Ornette Coleman’s evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983 as a famed performer and composer, documentary footage, dramatic scenes and some of the first music video-style segments ever made, chronicle his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon. Among those who contribute to the film include William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Buckminster Fuller, Don Cherry, Yoko Ono, Charlie Haden, Robert Palmer, Jayne Cortez and John Rockwell.

Ornette: Made in America is essential for anyone hoping to understand the history of jazz and the fertile creative exchange that highlighted the 60’s and 70’s in America. It is a portrayal of the inner life of an artist-innovator.

The innovative techniques that director Shirley Clarke and producer Kathelin Hoffman employed in this film very closely parallel the music of the man who is its subject. Clarke defied traditional documentary formats to reveal Ornette’s extraordinary vision through her equally extraordinary filmmaking artistry.

Critically acclaimed when it released in 1985, the film is even more significant today, as Coleman’s influence has increased, while Clarke and Hoffman’s interpretation of his life and times remain as fresh and exciting as ever.

The film focuses on the struggles and triumphs of Ornette Coleman’s life as well as on the inspired intelligence that spawned his creativity and ensured his success. Clarke’s footage includes Ornette in conversation with family and friends; excerpts of interviews, riffs and travels, along with footage of his performances—in his hometown of Fort Worth, TX, in New York, in Morocco and beyond—presents the most comprehensive record of his career available.

Ornette: Made in America explores the rhythms, images and myths of America seen through they eyes of an artist’s ever-expanding imagination and experience.

Ornette SD.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 17mn
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https://nitro.download/view/8742A0304204052/Ornette_SD.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English (soft subs)

The post Shirley Clarke – Ornette: Made in America (1985) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
A pair of performers wearing bodysuits dance and balance together in this short film by director Shirley Clarke, part of her FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME project.

179MB | 07m 37s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/550CF6506A7710A/Four.Journeys.into.Mystic.Time.Trans.1978.1080p.Criterion.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

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Synopsis
Part of the larger filmic cycle FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME, this work makes use of a dancer’s body as a canvas on which to paint projected images.

529MB | 13m 51s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/379E4F1BCC00694/Four.Journeys.into.Mystic.Time.Mysterium.1978.1080p.Criterion.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

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The post Shirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Mysterium (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
Part of Shirley Clarke’s cycle FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME, this short film observes a dance that represents a spiritual or religious initiation.

1.10GB | 28m 11s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6A996A7739F9137/Four.Journeys.into.Mystic.Time.Initiation.1978.1080p.Criterion.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

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The post Shirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: Initiation (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
This abstract work featuring three dancers interacting with large screens as well as each other. Costuming and color play an integral role in this piece, part of Shirley Clarke’s FOUR JOURNEYS INTO MYSTIC TIME.

337MB | 08m 18s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/4294C7BF0BD051B/Four.Journeys.into.Mystic.Time.One-Two-Three.1978.1080p.Criterion.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

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The post Shirley Clarke – Four Journeys into Mystic Time: One-2-3 (1978) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
THE CONNECTION is one of the most vital, fascinating films of the American independent world. Created by a woman director, Shirley Clarke, at a time when they were in very short supply, the film shattered stereotypes in just about every conceivable way. And yet, the film remained unseen for many years.

Shirley Clarke was a vital part of the burgeoning post-war American film movement. She was one of the first signers — and the only woman — of the New American Cinema manifesto in 1961. For her first feature film, she decided to take on a controversial play by Jack Gelber that was running off-Broadway. The Connection was a play within a play within a jazz concert. It portrayed a group of drug addicts, some of them jazz musicians, waiting in a New York loft apartment for their drug connection. A producer and a writer, meanwhile, have entered their lives to study them and write a play about them. The brilliantly written Beat dialogue was blended with jazz music written by the great pianist Freddie Redd.

Clarke changed the character of the writer to Jim Dunn, a young, preppy filmmaker out to make a name for himself by documenting the “scene.” As Clarke was best friends with the hot new indie directors, she added a level of humor by poking fun at the cinema verité movement. She also chose to keep the play’s one-set constriction, but she combined the French New Wave’s mobile camera with a whirling choreography of movement and jazz to create an exciting, kinetic film that was acclaimed at the Cannes International Film Festival as a masterpiece. Yet even knowing the avant garde nature of the play and her film, little could Clarke recognize the furor the film was about to create.

Although Hollywood had previously depicted drug addiction in the recent years, it was mostly of the good men gone bad scenario with tragic endings. THE CONNECTION, with the raw, graphic depiction of drug addicts that Gelber wrote for the stage, A hit at Cannes, it was promptly banned by government censor boards for indecent language and a struggle ensued to have it theatrically screened in the United States. After a two-year battle, the producers and director ultimately won in court and as important as it was judicially, it was sadly a case of too little too late as the film lost its timeliness and failed at the box office. But among filmmakers, it was highly influential. The film has been out of distribution since the early 1980s.

Arthur Ornitz’s black-and-white cinematography sparkles on the screen, and the performances of Freddie Redd and saxophone legend Jackie McLean sound impeccable in the new UCLA restoration. The release of THE CONNECTION is one of the cinema events of the year!

1.70GB | 1h 42m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E714B037CDA4CAC/The_Connection_SD.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English (soft subs)

The post Shirley Clarke – The Connection (1962) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
The recurring theme of dance once again works its way into a Shirley Clarke project, as this short film features a performance that takes place across a multitude of environments. As a primary couple intimately interacts, Clarke tests herself as a filmmaker by enhancing the performance with camera movements and visual additions. Altering the setting and the atmosphere with the use of back-projection, this intriguing piece illustrates Clarke’s willingness to experiment on many levels.

356MB | 09m 56s | 1440×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/46C7BF34AFFA55E/A.Moment.in.Love.1956.1080p.mkv
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https://tezfiles.com/file/36b7693fce692/A.Moment.in.Love.1956.1080p.mp4

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