France 2003, 80 min., colour, OV (Englisch) w/ French ST
Format: DVD/PAL, Dolby digital 2.0
Photography: Pierre Noguès
Sound/Editing: Sylvain Luini
Interviews: Ellen Christi
Production: Doc ad Hoc, France
Portrait of Chicago´s contemporary Jazz and Improvising
scene and a musical stroll across the Windy City in the
company of the locally-born Jazz vocalist Ellen Christi,
in search of the Chicago sound.
With statements and concert excerpts by:
Ellen Christi, Fred Anderson, Von Freeman, Michael Zerang,
Jodie Christian,
Kahil El`Zabar, Nikki Mitchell, Ken Vandermark, Tatsu Aoki,
Joseph Jarman,
Leroy Jenkins, Mwata Bowden, Kaliq Woods, Ed Wilkerson,
Sterling Plumpp,
Douglas Ewart, Lauren deutsch, Marguerite Horberg, Bob Koester,
Neil Tesser,
John Litweiler, Charles Walton
Ellen Christi
Since the mid-seventies, Ellen Christi has steadily gained
ground as an important contributor to American improvised
music and contemporary jazz. As a composer/vocalist, she
has worked in varying performance venues ranging
from multi-media theatrical productions to solo vocal concerts.
She has also been an active advocate in supporting
innovative performing artists through organizations that
she has co-founded or directed.
Ellen has studied piano technique, composition, and arranging
with Jaki Byard, the internationally acclaimed pianist/composer
and a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music.
She had studied the bel canto technique with Galli Campi,
a coloratura singer with the Metropolitan Opera. Earlier
on in her career, she studied vocal technique and movement
with Jeanne Lee, an avant-garde jazz vocalist.
Ellen was one of the co-founders of New York City Artists´
Collective, a non-profit organization committed to developing
creative independence for artist and fostering appreciation
of visual and performing arts through educational seminars,
concert productions, and record documentation/ production
(N.Y.C.A.C. Records) She is also the founder of Network
Records, an independent record label promoting contemporary
jazz music.
Ellen has been performing and recording with musicians in
the United States and Europe, among them Tom Bruno, Ray
Anderson, Mark Dresser, Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman,
Rashid Ali, Tony Scott, Ed Blackwell, William Parker, Lisa
Sokolov, Jeanne Lee, Kenny Wheeler, Steve McCall, Rahn Burton,
Roy Campbell, Lawrence ´Butch´ Morris, and Hans
Koch, Fiorenzo Sordini, Claudio Lodati, Carlo Actis Dato,
Enrico Fazio, Thomi Hirt and Pit Gutmann. Currently she
is working with Joe Gallant's Illuminati, a 22-piece ensemble,
performing and producing concerts with her present performing
ensemble, Aliens´ Talk. She is developing a world
music project with Vincent Nguini of Cameroon. And the most
recent recording project is with bassist, Habib Faye and
balafonist, Babacar Konate of Senegal. A great portion of
her time is spent working as a producer for Bliss Corporation,
a dance music production company in Torino, Italy.
Gilles Corre
Born in 1954 in Brest (France). After a PHD in Linguistics
and French Literature he studied cinematography at IDHEC
in Paris. Now a resident of Toulouse, Gilles Corre is an
independent filmmaker, a specialist in the field of documentaries,
and a photographer.
Films:
| 2009 |
Reports (film and photo) about malaria
(commissioned by La Cité de Sciences for the
exhibit "Epedemics") |
| 2009 |
DIABETES, A DEVELOPING DISEASE
About the burden of diabetes spreading in developing
countries, notably in Africa |
| 2008 |
A NEW BRIDGE
About the education and training of young medics from
Eastern Europe in France |
| 2007 |
THIS IS NOT A GAME (Prix SCAM du meilleur
documentaire, FIMAC 2007)
About the choking game |
| 2006 |
SISTER TO THE FORGOTTEN and FOR A CHILD'S
HEART (Prix de la meilleure communication audio- visuelle
et Prix Spécial de la Réalisation, FIMAC
2006; nominated in the category Mécénat,
New York Festivals 2006) |
| 2005 |
THE BANK OF THE POOR (Prix du film de Mécénat,
FIMAC 2005)
Microcredit in Africa |
| 2004 |
IGNACE DE LOYOLA (TV France 3)
|
| 2003 |
LA CITÉ DES VENTS / CITY OF THE WINDS (Fipatel
sélection 2003)
Portrait of the contemporary Jazz scene in Chicago
|
| 1999 |
FEMMES DU JAZZ/WOMEN IN JAZZ (FIPA d´or, Biarritz
2000)
|
| 1996 |
ALASKA BEAR, THE WOUNDED LEGEND (ARTE)
Comparison between the mythology and its reality in
South East Alaska
|
| 1993 |
BUCAREST, GARE DU NORD / BUCHAREST, NORTH
STATION (FIPA Sélection, Cannes 1993, CANAL+)
About street children in Romania |
Ellen Christi
Since the mid-seventies, Ellen Christi has steadily gained
ground as an important contributor to American improvised
music and contemporary jazz. As a composer/vocalist, she has
worked in varying performance venues ranging from multi-media
theatrical productions to solo vocal concerts. She has also
been an active advocate in supporting innovative performing
artists through organizations that she has co-founded or directed.
Ellen has studied piano technique, composition, and arranging
with Jaki Byard, the internationally acclaimed pianist/composer
and a professor at the New England Conservatory of Music.
She had studied the bel canto technique with Galli Campi,
a coloratura singer with the Metropolitan Opera. Earlier on
in her career, she studied vocal technique and movement with
Jeanne Lee, an avant-garde jazz vocalist. Ellen was one of
the co-founders of New York City Artists´ Collective, a non-profit
organization committed to developing creative independence
for artist and fostering appreciation of visual and performing
arts through educational seminars, concert productions, and
record documentation/ production (N.Y.C.A.C. Records) She
is also the founder of Network Records, an independent record
label promoting contemporary jazz music. Ellen has been performing
and recording with musicians in the United States and Europe,
among them Tom Bruno, Ray Anderson, Mark Dresser, Andrew Cyrille,
Reggie Workman, Rashid Ali, Tony Scott, Ed Blackwell, William
Parker, Lisa Sokolov, Jeanne Lee, Kenny Wheeler, Steve McCall,
Rahn Burton, Roy Campbell, Lawrence ´Butch´ Morris, and Hans
Koch, Fiorenzo Sordini, Claudio Lodati, Carlo Actis Dato,
Enrico Fazio, Thomi Hirt and Pit Gutmann. Currently she is
working with Joe Gallant's Illuminati, a 22-piece ensemble,
performing and producing concerts with her present performing
ensemble, Aliens´ Talk. She is developing a world music project
with Vincent Nguini of Cameroon. And the most recent recording
project is with bassist, Habib Faye and balafonist, Babacar
Konate of Senegal. A great portion of her time is spent working
as a producer for Bliss Corporation, a dance music production
company in Torino, Italy.
www.ellenchristi.com
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