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Ornette: Made in America Ornette: Made in America Shirley Clarke “Whatever the idea is, it’s never something you can just tell „Was auch immer die Idee ist, es wird nie etwas sein, was du einer anderen to another person and be sure that they know what you Person so erklären kannst, dass sie es genau versteht … also spiel einfach mean, so … just play the music.” That’s how Ornette Coleman die Musik.“ So äußerte sich Ornette Coleman und so drehte Shirley Clarke put it, and that’s how Shirley Clarke shot Ornette: Made in ihren Film Ornette: Made in America, mit dem sie ihn porträtierte: Er America, her portrait of Coleman. It begins with his symphony beginnt mit seiner Symphonie „Skies of America“ und endet im Applaus. “Skies of America” and ends with applause. In between, the Dazwischen lässt sich die ehemalige Tänzerin auf die Musik ein, auf das former dancer engages with music, this free jazz pioneer’s bewegte Leben des Pioniers des Free Jazz, auf seine Bilder. Nebenher eventful life and its images. She also explores questions of verhandelt sie Fragen des Dokumentarfilms, indem sie Talking Heads von documentary filmmaking in the process, placing her talking- TV-Bildschirmen rahmen lässt, eine Kindheit voller Diskriminierung, aber heads within a frame of TV screens and staging a childhood auch eine Mondlandung in Szene setzt. marked by discrimination and even a moon landing. Der Erfinder der „Harmolodics“, der gern Architekt oder Hirnforscher The inventor of “Harmolodics”, who would like to have been geworden wäre, hatte einen Wahlverwandten: Buckminster Fuller, an architect or a neuroscientist, had a kindred spirit in Erfinder der geodätischen Kuppel. Eine solche findet sich auf dem Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome. Such Performing Art Center „Caravan of Dreams“, das, benannt nach a dome can also be found at the “Caravan of Dreams”, a Tausend und einer Nacht, 1983 in Colemans Heimatstadt Fort Worth, performing arts centre in Coleman’s hometown of Fort Worth, Texas, mit Auftritten von ihm und seiner Prime Time Band und in Texas which takes its name from the Arabian Nights. It was Anwesenheit von Brion Gysin und William S. Burroughs eröffnet wurde. inaugurated in 1983 with a performance by Coleman and his Von hier aus geht die Reise nach Berkeley, Italien, Marokko und Nigeria. Prime Time Band, with Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs in Stefanie Schulte Strathaus attendance. From here, the journey moves on to Berkeley, Italy, Morocco and Nigeria. Stefanie Schulte Strathaus berlinale forum 2012 1 A jazz portrait, 20 years in the making Ein Jazz-Porträt über 20 Jahre hinweg “I wasn’t trying to make a ‘documentary’ of Ornette Coleman,” „Ich hatte nicht vor, einen Dokumentarfilm über Ornette Coleman zu dre- said director Shirley Clarke in her room at the Chateau Mar- hen“, sagte Regisseurin Shirley Clarke in ihrem Zimmer im Hotel Chateau mont. “I hope nobody goes to this film expecting a record of Marmont. „Ich hoffe, dass niemand, der in diesen Film geht, einen Bericht Ornette’s musical life because that’s not what it is.” “We want- von Ornettes musikalischem Leben erwartet, denn das ist er nicht. Wir ed people to come away feeling a certain way about somebody wollten, dass die Leute davon wegkommen, den Porträtierten in einer ganz and knowing a little bit about his music and its relation to him. bestimmten Weise wahrzunehmen, ein wenig über seine Musik zu erfahren Ornette is not violently well known (outside the jazz world) und über sein Verhältnis zur Musik. Ornette ist (außerhalb der Jazzwelt) and that had something to do with my choosing to make a film nicht übermäßig bekannt; diese Tatsache spielte auch eine Rolle bei mei- that could appeal to people who just want to see this kind of ner Entscheidung, einen Film zu machen, der Menschen anspricht, die film making and don’t have to know it’s about Ornette.” mehr an seiner Machart interessiert sind als daran, dass es ein Film über Clarke’s groundbreaking portrait of the celebrated saxophon- Ornette ist.“ ist / composer, Ornette: Made in America, would qualify as un- Clarkes wegweisendes Porträt des gefeierten Saxofonisten und Kompo- usual even if it was a straight documentary. It took the vet- nisten könnte man auch als ausgefallen bezeichnen, selbst wenn es ein eran, New York-based director 20 years to complete the film. klassischer Dokumentarfilm wäre. Die erfahrene, in New York lebende Re- Clarke was a dancer who studied with Martha Graham before gisseurin hat 20 Jahre gebraucht, um den Film fertigzustellen. she moved out of performing and into the movie world in the Shirley Clarke war Tänzerin und hat mit Martha Graham gearbeitet, bevor late ’50s. She became well known in independent film circles sie sich in den späten 50er Jahren von den darstellenden Künsten ab- und in the early ’60s for her filmsThe Connection and The Cool World der Filmwelt zuwandte. In den frühen 60er Jahren wurde sie mit ihren Fil- before directing a 1964 documentary on poet Robert Frost men The Connection und The Cool World in der amerikanischen Indepen- that won an Academy Award. dent-Szene bekannt, bevor sie 1964 einen Oscar-prämierten Dokumentar- She met the saxophonist through a mutual friend, Yoko Ono, film über den Dichter Robert Frost drehte. during a mid-’60s Parisian sojourn. When an independent New Während eines Aufenthalts in Paris Mitte der 1960er Jahre lernte sie Or- York producer approached Clarke to do a movie about jazz, she nette Coleman über eine gemeinsame Freundin, Yoko Ono, kennen. Als kur- embarked on a film centered around Coleman’s decision to use ze Zeit später ein unabhängiger New Yorker Produzent Clarke vorschlug, his 11-year-old son Denardo as the drummer for his group. einen Jazzfilm zu machen, begann sie mit der Arbeit an einem Projekt, in But the original project foundered in 1969 when the produc- dem es um Colemans Entscheidung ging, seinen elfjährigen Sohn Denardo er disliked a partially completed version of the film. Clarke en- als Schlagzeuger in seiner Band einzusetzen. gineered her firing from the project to avoid being liable for Dieses Projekt scheiterte 1969, weil dem Produzenten eine erste Version $40,000 in expenses and the footage spent the next dozen des Films missfiel. Clarke fädelte ihren Rauswurf aus der Produktion ein, years gathering dust under people’s beds. um nicht für Kosten in Höhe von 40.000 Dollar haftbar gemacht zu wer- den. Während der nächsten zwölf Jahre verstaubte das Filmmaterial unter “The first thing I laid down was the sound” den Betten verschiedener Leute. The experience shook Clarke so much that she abandoned films Diese Erfahrung war für Clarke so erschreckend, dass sie den Film aufgab for the fledgling video field. Video techniques played a central und sich der aufkommenden Videotechnik verschrieb, die dann auch eine role in assembling and completing Ornette: Made in America. zentrale Rolle bei der Montage und Vervollständigung von Ornette: Made “Video allows for an emotional response on the part of the in America spielte. person editing,” Clarke said. “What’s going to change is that you’re going to have the same kind of freedom that actors have „Das Erste, was ich festlegte, war der Ton“ on stage, yet you can record it. It allows the film maker to stay „Video ermöglicht es einem, beim Schneiden eines Films emotional zu re- in the creative process longer.” agieren“, erläuterte Clarke. „Mit Hilfe dieser Technik werden Filmema- The film project was resurrected in 1983 when the Caravan of cher künftig über eine ähnliche Freiheit verfügen wie Schauspieler auf Dreams Performing Arts Center in Fort Worth, Tex., opened its der Bühne – und obendrein werden sie diese Freiheit festhalten können. doors by engineering Coleman’s first hometown appearance Auf diese Weise wird es Filmemachern möglich sein, länger am kreativen in 25 years. Producer Kathelin Hoffman formed a production Prozess teilzuhaben.“ company to capture the event and Coleman suggested that 1983 wurde das Jazz-Projekt erneut aufgegriffen, als das Caravan of Clarke be contacted. Dreams Performing Arts Center in Fort Worth (Texas) anlässlich seiner Er- The core of Ornette: Made in America is a nightclub set by Cole- öffnung Colemans ersten Auftritt in seiner Heimatstadt nach 25 Jahren man’s Prime Time band, a performance of his Skies of America arrangierte. Mit dem Ziel, das Ereignis zu dokumentieren, gründete die symphony combining Prime Time with the Fort Worth Sympho- Produzentin Kathelin Hoffman eine Produktionsgesellschaft; Coleman ny and scripted segments dramatizing some early childhood schlug vor, Clarke zu kontaktieren. memories there. The film captures much of the improvisation- Die zentralen Parts von Ornette: Made in America zeigen einen Auftritt al flavor and unorthodox structure of Coleman’s singular mu- von Colemans Band Prime Time in einem Nachtclub, eine Aufführung sei- sical style. ner Symphonie Skies of America, bei der Prime Time und das Orchester Fort “I knew I was connecting to the way he sounded because the Worth Symphony gemeinsam spielen, sowie szenische Darstellungen eini- first thing I laid down was the sound,” Clarke said. “Then I de- ger früher, in Fort Worth angesiedelter Kindheitserinnerungen des Musi- cided what images were going to go with that particular sound. kers. Der Film vermittelt anschaulich die Improvisationskunst und die un- I shot every single piece we used without knowing what I was orthodoxe Struktur von Colemans einzigartigem musikalischen Stil. going to do with it.” „Ich war mir sicher, dass es mir gelingen würde, eine Verbindung zu seiner “Having laid the spine down, which was his music, I edited to Klangwelt herzustellen – das Erste, was ich festlegte, war der Ton“, sagte berlinale forum 2012 2 the music. That’s where the rhythms and energy came from.
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