Oct 04 - 25 2022
BIMA smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

BIMA smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

Presented by Bainbridge Island Museum of Art at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

Thin Skin smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(2020) 1H30M - October 4, 2022 @ 2pm & 7pm
Based in Seattle, Nigerian American jazz musician Aham is a divorced father of two who longs for a career as a musician but must pay the bills with his soul-sucking desk job. His only solace is found at night behind a trumpet in Seattle’s jazz clubs. His father, a stranger from Nigeria, steps in with opinions on the matter which sends Aham into a tailspin. Featuring local actors and musicians and directed by The Stranger’s Charles Mudede.

For the Evening screening only:
Join us for a post-screening Q & A with director Charles Mudede and writer/lead actor Ahamefule J. Oluo.

Tickets: https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/thin-skin-smartfilms-syncopated-cinema-series/

Pepper’s Pow Wow smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(1996) 56M - October 11, 2022 @ 2pm & 7pm

In honor of Indigenous People’s Day, BIMA presents a captivating look at the life of Native American jazz saxophone pioneer Jim Pepper, the first widely recognized musician to fuse Native American music with jazz. The documentary soars with diverse musical highlights, including Pepper’s grandfather’s recording of the peyote chant “Witchi Tai To,” which Pepper developed into a crossover hit on both the jazz and Top 40 charts. Pepper’s life and music harmonized two distinct cultures, and serve as a poetic example for all indigenous people, “walking in two worlds with one spirit.” Produced and directed by local filmmakers Sandy Johnson Osawa (M’Kaw) and Yasu Osawa.

Sandy and Yasu will be hosting our smARTfilms Club pre-series webinar on October 3rd

Tickets: https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/peppers-pow-wow-smartfilms-syncopated-cinema-series/

Space Is The Place smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(1974) 1H22M - October 18, 2022 @ 2pm & 7pm
Avant-jazz mystic Sun Ra brought his pioneering Afrofuturist vision to the screen with this film version of his concept album. It’s a wild, kaleidoscopic whirl of science fiction, sharp social commentary, goofy pseudo-blaxploitation stylistics, and thrilling concert performance, in which the pharaonic Ra and his Arkestra lead an intergalactic movement to resettle the Black race on their utopian space colony.

Tickets: https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/space-is-the-place-smartfilms-syncopated-cinema-series/

Jazz On A Summer’s Day smARTfilms: Syncopated Cinema Series

(1959) 1H25M - October 25, 2022 @ 2pm & 7pm

This documentary concert film captures the sounds and performances of some of the major jazz artists at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Unlike earlier jazz movies that had been filmed in smoky black and white, this is shot in vibrant color. While musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Anita O’Day and Mahalia Jackson perform, images of beaches, sailboats on water, dancing couples and the faces of joyful audience members are intercut into the proceedings.

Tickets: https://www.biartmuseum.org/event/jazz-on-a-summers-day/

Admission Info

Live attendance film showing tickets are $10 prior to any taxes or fees. Pre and Post-Series film discussions are free to attend and online.

Links associated to each respective event are also the ticketing pages.

Email: events@biartmuseum.org

Dates & Times

2022/10/04 - 2022/10/25

Additional time info:

smARTfilms Film Club Pre-Series webinar: Syncopated Cinema

Zoom Online October 3, 2022 - 7pm - Register Here!

Webinar with guest speakers Sandy and Yasu Osawa, producers and director of numerous films including Pepper’s Pow Wow (screening October 11 at BIMA) on the making of their films and honoring Native artists in Jazz.

Sandy Johnson Osawa (Makah) and Yasu Osawa met at UCLA’s graduate film program for minority students in the 70’s. Forty years later, they have produced a ten-part series on American Indian issues for NBC, five documentaries for PBS/TLC, and a one hour NBC special on treaty rights plus over 60 videos for museums, tribes and organizations. They formed their own production company in Seattle in 1980 and have exhibited their work both nationally and internationally. Their work is used in college classrooms from Harvard to Berkeley and is distributed by Upstream Productions.

 

smARTfilms Film Club post-series forum: Syncopated Cinema

Zoom Online - October 26, 2022 at 7pm - Register Here!

Join us for an on-line discussion on the films and themes from the Syncopated Cinema series with special guest Charles Mudede, director of Thin Skin and Senior Writer for The Stranger. Charles will be joining us to talk about Jazz as a narrative element in film making, bringing a production from stage to screen, and the challenges of premiering a film in the early days of Covid.

Location Info

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110