[Frameworks] Jazz Music and Avant-Garde Film

[mary billyou]

Cassavettes' *Shadows*

On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 1:59 AM, C Keefer <keefco1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> many other visual music films for that list, here's a few -
>
> More by Harry Smith, Films 2 and 3 and 11
>
> Jordan Belson, Bop Scotch
>
> More by Hy Hirsh (no c in Hirsh), including Scratch Pad
>
> at least 4 or 5 films by Len Lye
> more by Norman McLaren
>
> Oskar Fischinger, Studie nr 5.  On CVM's vimeo VOD channel, also on the
> forthcoming new Oskar Fischinger DVD next month,
> www.centerforvisualmusic.org/Fischinger/newdvd.htm
>
> Steve Woloshen, Shimmer Box Drive
>
>
> Cindy Keefer
> Center for Visual Music
> www.centerforvisualmusic.org
>
> CVM email - cvmaccess (at) gmail.com
>
>
> (original post)
> On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 5:14 AM, Albert Alcoz <
> albertalcoz at gmail.com <mailto:albertalcoz at gmail.com
> <albertalcoz at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering about the connections between jazz music and avant-garde
> film after watching Bridges-Go-Round (1958) by Shirley Clarke, with the
> soundtrack version created by Teo Macero.
>
> There should be plenty of avant-garde and experimental films where the
> soundtrack is instrumental jazz music. Maybe the field of Visual Music
> should be the most represented but i'm sure there are other films like the
> one by Michael Snow that uses, in this case, free jazz music or
> improvisation.
>
> Does anyone remember some other avant-garde films with jazz soundtracks?
>
> Right my list is as follows:
>
> Begone Dull Care (1949) by Norman McLaren. Music by Oscar Peterson
>
> Films No. 1 (1948) by Harry Smith. Music by Dizzy Gillespie
>
> Chasse des Touches (1959) by Hy Hirsh. Music by Thelonious Monk
>
> Catalog (1961) by John Whitney. Music by Ornette Coleman
>
> New York Eye and Ear Control (1964) by Michael Snow. Music by Albert
> Ayler, Don Cherry, etc.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Albert Alcoz
>
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