Joel Freedman

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Joel L. Freedman (* around 1943 ) is an American improvisation musician ( cello ) and filmmaker .

Live and act

Freedman, who grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson and whose father is the painter Maurice Freedman (1904–1985), learned the cello early on. He studied film studies at the Tisch School of the Arts (Bachelor, Master). In 1964 he performed as a cellist at Carnegie Hall with flautists Martin Siegel, Barre Phillips and Charles Moffett . In 1965 he made music with Burton Greene and Perry Robinson . In the same year Albert Ayler brought him into his group, with which he also recorded. With Bill Dixon he interpreted several times his composition Groundspeed in 1966 , which was the basis of a choreography by Judith Dunn (1933–1983). He was also a member of Sunny Murray's Turn of the Century Orchestra and in 1966 also recorded with Charles Tyler .

Freedman supported his friend Roy Lichtenstein in the realization of three film loops for the three-screen installation Three Landscapes (1971), which was created from 1969 at the invitation of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (and in the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Tate Gallery ). Together with Philip F. Messina he created in 1970 the anti- drug film Skezag , the Vietnam War - veterans is at the center. As a producer and director, he has made numerous documentaries that dealt primarily with the struggle of the North American natives and the state of the environment, such as Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain (1975) and To Protect Mother Earth (1989), both with Robert Redford as narrator , and Even if a Hundred Ogres… (1996) with Joanne Woodward as narrator. He was also involved as executive producer on Douglas Trumbull's feature film Projekt Brainstorm (1983). He is the founder of the production companies We Make Movies, LLC and Cinnamon Productions, Inc.

As a university lecturer, he taught film production at the Tisch School of the Arts. He is also a founding member of The Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers .

Prizes and awards

Together with Messina, Freedman received the Jury Award for Skezag at the Atlanta International Film Festival. For To Protect Mother Earth he was awarded the Golden Eagle of the Council on International Nontheatrical Events (CINE) in 1990.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1970: Skezag
  • 1975: Broken Treaty at Battle Mountain
  • 1976: The Learning Path
  • 1976: Land Is Life
  • 1989: To Protect Mother Earth - Broken Treaty II
  • 1996: Even if a Hundred Ogres ...
  • 2012: Sam's War. A GI's Journey

Discographic notes

  • Albert Ayler Live in Greenwich Village: The Complete Impulse Sessions ( Impulse 1965–67, ed. 1998)
  • Charles Tyler Ensemble ( ESP 1966)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurice Freedman: Poetry in Paint (exhibition catalog 2014)
  2. ↑ Ben Young Dixonia: A Bio-discography of Bill Dixon. Greenwood Press: Westport 1998, p. 346
  3. ↑ Ben Young Dixonia: A Bio-discography of Bill Dixon , pp. 363, 365, and Perry Robinson The Traveler. San Jose, etc. 2002, p. 139
  4. ^ Dan Lander Music Is Rapid Transportation: From the Beatles to Xenakis 2010, p. 23
  5. ↑ Ben Young Dixonia: A Bio-discography of Bill Dixon , pp. 101ff.
  6. ^ Marion Brown Discography
  7. ^ Roy Lichtenstein Whitney 2011
  8. ^ Roy Lichtenstein: Three Landscapes (Tate Modern)
  9. ^ Stefan Reinecke : Hollywood goes Vietnam. The Vietnam War in American Films. Hitzeroth, Marburg 1993, p. 28.
  10. ↑ Ökomedia, Institute for ecological media work. Media course book on ecology: films, videos, slides, audio shows, slides. Freiburg 1993, p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Freedman, Joel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freedman, Joel L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American improvisation musician (cello) and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH around 1943