FREE! Jazz, cinema and experimenting showcase.

The National Cinema Museum and the Turin Jazz Festival are organising FREE! Jazz, cinema and experimenting – from 29 May to 2 June 2015 at the Cinema Massimo – a retrospective summing up music and cinema’s most anarchic and provoking spirit in six films.

A brief tribute will be dedicated to Shirley Clarke with three films: her debut feature film The Connection (1960), a manifesto for New American Cinema, The Cool World (1963), her incursion deep into the black ghetto in Harlem and Ornette, made in America (1985), a documentary on jazzman Ornette Coleman’s big concert at Fort Worth in Texas. The showcase will continue under the aegis of experimenting and freedom of expression, with Chappaqua (1966), the psychedelic trip into hallucinations directed and performed by Conrad Rooks (also starring William S. Burroughs, Ravi Shankar, Allen Ginsberg, Paula Prichett and Ornette Coleman) and A Charlie Parker (To Charlie Parker, 1970) directed by Leo de Berardinis and Perla Peragallo, a masterpiece in the destructuring of sense, with “live” images crisscrossing each other and unveiling a cinematography whose sense springs almost exclusively from its editing. This last film is part of the Turin meets Berlin project. Admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro.