Film Record: Liquid Jazz

Still of Liquid Jazz via The East Anglian Film Archive.

Identifier:

• Cat no. 3548 (Source: http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/3548)
• 7501068 (Source: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7501068)

Date produced: 1962

Filmmaker(s):

Joseph M. Kramer

Production credits:

• Trevor Duncan, Composer

Languages:

English

Length:

219 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Optical

Awards/Recognition:

PSA Ten Best 1962, Digitized by the East Anglian Film Archive

Description:

"Floating, bubbling, revolving, darting, projecting, swirling, blending, forming, superimposing colors upon colors in sync with jazz music. Two numbers of different tempo and patterns, a fantasia of color configuration and music. What can one say about this type of visual and audible accomplishment on film? This will be included in the [prize winning] Package." PSA Journal, Oct. 1962, 34.

Resources:

Kramer's obituary by Gayle Ronan Sims states that "Mr. Kramer's second film, Liquid Jazz, won awards at the New York,Cannes, Venice and Edinburgh film festivals" Philadelphia Inquirer, Wed. Sept. 15, 2004, pB11.

Part of the Jazz on the Screen Filmography by David Meeker and shows up as a listing on the Library of Congress website.

Locations:

• USA (Filming)

Subjects:

• Art and Recreation
•           Abstract films
•      Music

Genre:

• Experimental

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

Video Link:

• Liquid Jazz at the East Anglian Film Archive

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