This week our film picks are all ones in which context weighs heavily on the experience. While two of these movies are rendered incredible beyond…
Two Chances to Soak Up Some Sun Ra
A little over a year after Sun Ra’s centenary celebration, the far-out work of the jazz musician, poet, and Afro-futurist who taught us that “space…
Film: 'Ornette Coleman: Made in America'
From July 17 to 23, the Williamsburg micro theater will screen Shirley Clarke’s 1985 documentary Ornette: Made in America as well as Conrad Rooks’s 1966…
A Film Tribute to Ornette Coleman, Jazzman of the Bowery and LES
Ornette Coleman was buried in Woodlawn Cemetary a little over a week ago, following a memorial service attended by Pharoah Sanders, Cecil Taylor and other fellow luminaries…