ORNETTE Made in America – Movie Retroview – 1986/2012
Filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s experimental approach to movie making matches up perfectly with jazz man Ornette Coleman’s experimental approach to music making in this classic documentary profile and tribute film. The project was initiated during the early 1980s in response to producer Kathelin Hoffman’s wish to document the debut performance of Ornette Coleman’s symphony, Skies of America, at the opening of Fort Worth’s new Caravan of Dreams Performing Arts Center. As Clarke and crew worked on the film, ORNETTE Made in America developed into an experimental foray into the previously untried amalgamation of different film stocks and video format into a film that could be released theatrically.
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