Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game

Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game

1984
4min

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 Coleman lose themselves in slot machines, turn gravel into glass marbles and vanish into video-animated supernatural light.

Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game

Storyline

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 Coleman lose themselves in slot machines, turn gravel into glass marbles and vanish into video-animated supernatural light.
    Released
    January 1984
    Runtime
    4min
    Director
    Status
    Released
    Language
    English
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