featuring a Skype dialogue with film preservationist Dennis Doros
Wed, 11/14/2012 - 7:00pm to 9:15pm
For her first feature film, Shirley Clarke decided to take on a controversial play by Jack Gelber that was running off-Broadway, performed by the Living Theatre. The Connection (1961, 103 minutes) was a play within a play within a jazz concert. It portrayed a group of drug addicts, some of them jazz musicians, waiting in a New York loft apartment for their drug connection. A producer and a writer, meanwhile, have entered their lives to study them and write a play about them. The brilliantly written Beat dialogue was blended with jazz music written by the great pianist Freddie Redd.
