Film Screenings / Programs / Series
VISION FESTIVAL 25 [ONLINE]
July 22 – July 31
Streaming online from July 22-31! Each program is available for a streaming rental fee of $5. Click here for Program 1 and here for Program 2.
For many years now, Anthology has collaborated with Arts for Art on the occasion of their annual FreeJazz Vision Festival. Last year we were all set to host a day of screenings in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the festival, when our entire spring programming calendar fell victim to the pandemic. A year later, we’ve arranged to renew our collaboration, with a special online presentation of that postponed program, which will take place during the 2021 edition of the festival.
The Vision Festival itself will take place from July 22-31, with concerts at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and at The Clemente, La Plaza Outdoors, on the Lower East Side. The film programs below will be available for streaming rental throughout that period.
For more info about Vision Festival, which presents global artists ranging from new talents to legendary figures in music, dance, visual art, film, and poetry, visit: www.artsforart.org/vision.html
PROGRAM 1:
Ephraim Asili
MANY THOUSANDS GONE
2015, 10 min, digital
Filmed on location in Salvador, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem, New York (an international stronghold of the African Diaspora), MANY THOUSANDS GONE draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist, Joe McPhee, to use as an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real-time “sight reading” of the score.
Moon Lasso
AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS: REFLECTIONS
2021, 15 min, digital
Born in Blackwell, Arkansas, Amina Claudine Myers began her music career directing church choirs, singing, and playing gospel and rhythm and blues, and her early jazz experience came in groups led by Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt. After moving to Chicago in the 1960s, Myers became a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), began composing for voice and instruments, and appeared on classic AACM records. Now based in NYC, Myers has become well known for her work involving voice choirs, voice and instrumental ensemble, musical theater, and a robust exploration of the pipe organ, all while seamlessly blending blues, jazz, gospel, and extended forms. REFLECTIONS will include recent and archival performance footage, as well as interviews with Myers herself.
Ephraim Asili
POINTS ON A SPACE AGE
2011, 32 min, digital
POINTS ON A SPACE AGE explores the recent activity of the remaining members of the influential Sun Ra Arkestra since the passing of its founding member, Sun Ra, and examines their current work under the direction of Marshall Allen.
PROGRAM 2:
Alan Roth
INSIDE OUT IN THE OPEN
2001, 60 min, digital. 20th Anniversary Screening!
INSIDE OUT IN THE OPEN is a documentary focusing on the revolutionary developments in jazz music that evolved in the early 1960s, expanding boundaries in rhythm, sound, harmonics, and collective improvisation, with an expansive openness and deep emotion. It was one of the first feature documentaries to provide an overview of this musical tradition. The film revolves around interviews with eleven such musicians, whose words are complemented by their music and that of many others. The interviewees represent several generations: Marion Brown, Baikida Carroll, Daniel Carter, Burton Greene, Susie Ibarra, Joseph Jarman, William Parker, Roswell Rudd, Matthew Shipp, Alan Silva, and John Tchicai, with short performances by Roy Campbell, Denis Charles, and Glenn Spearman, among many others. Although the film was produced over 20 years ago, it is remains vitally relevant and illuminating, and represents a living document of the contributions and ideas of these great musicians.
