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Jazz On Film will take place from May 1-8 at the ACMI cinemas, Federation Square, Melbourne.  Coinciding with The Melbourne International Jazz Festival, the event will feature five films:

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
In the style of an old fashioned black and white musical, this premier screening features a modern love story set to a jazz soundtrack.

Black Orpheus
This 1959 French film won the best foreign language gong at the 1960 Academy Awards.  It explores the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice against the excess of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. 

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense
Premiering at the festival, this film explores the current generation of Jazz musicians in the scene today.

The Jazz Baroness
A documentary about the relationship between British heiress Pannonica Rothschild and Jazz pianist Thelonious Monk.  Narrated by Helen Mirren.

Improvs or A scatter-shot theory of hip communication
A bare-bones cut up of various jazz film excerpts, including clips from Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Shorty Petterstein, The Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra, Elvin Jones, How To Speak Hip, Dizzy Gillespie, John Cassavetes and Don Burrows.

For more information visit The Australian Centre for the Moving Image website here.

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• festival
• Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Event Type: 

• Festival Guides

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• Thelonious Monk

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