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Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game
UNITED STATES · 1984

Ornette Coleman: A Jazz Video Game

Shirley Clarke
Afrofuturism jazz music experimental cinema visual abstraction transformation and metamorphosis
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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.

Year1984
CountryUnited States
DirectorShirley Clarke
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