Rahsaan Roland Kirk Documentary To Be Released May 31
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, a groundbreaking reedist and social justice
activist who built a reputation on his ability to play multiple horns at
once, will be the subject of a new documentary due out on iTunes May
31.
Featuring archival footage of Kirk, as well as intimate interviews and animated sequences, Adam Kahan’s The Case of the Three Sided Dream,
will present a look at a musician who persevered through partial
paralysis (the result of a stroke) to pursue his passion for jazz.
The Case of the Three Sided Dream premiered at the 2014 South by
Southwest film festival, and was later screened at Full Frame, the Blue
Note Jazz Festival, the IFC Center, IDFA, Sound Unseen, Big Sky, Noise
Pop, PAFF LA, Atlanta, MIFF, Raindance and many other festivals over the
past year.
The film was awarded Best Documentary at the 2015 Pan African Film
Festival in Los Angeles, as well as Best Documentary at the 2015
Soundtrack Cologne festival in Cologne, Germany. It was also named one
of the Top 10 music documentaries of 2014 byNonfics.com.
The film will be released worldwide and will be a joint release by
Monoduo Films, Vimeo on Demand, Syndicado and Arthaus. It was made
available to stream and download on Vimeo On Demand on May 1, and will
be available on iTunes May 31. A DVD release is scheduled for the fall.
Further screenings are also planned for later this year in New York,
L.A., Toronto and Europe.
Kahan, a filmmaker living in Brooklyn, has made several short
documentaries on contemporary artists, including the photographer Andres
Serrano, the painter Fred Tomaselli and the sculptor Urs Fischer. The Case of the Three Sided Dream is his first feature.
Kirk, who died in 1977 at the age of 42, was a favorite of the DownBeat
International Critics Poll, placing highly in the Saxophone, Flute and
Miscellaneous Instrument categories throughout the ’70s.
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from www.downbeat.com
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