La Belle Usine a.s.b.l.

This film will cover America landscapes, soundscpaes and characters. It will also covers parts from South America cities like Cartagena de Indias, Colombia

16 mm, 120 min

DESCRIPTION PROJECTS :

ORDER FROM CHAOS

Film by Ana Isabel Ordonez

with the granted permission of

Auschwitz Birkenau Museum in Auschwitz, Poland

Spondored by Augusta Savage Gallery University of Massachusetts Starring :

Loter Martin

Yehuda Cheres

Featuting :

Rabbi Carie Carter

Rabbi Yackob Schapiro

Rabbi Yitzak Asiel

Produced by :

Ruby Flower Prdoductions

Summary :

The very root of Albert Ketzenger’s struggle grows in soil shared by Jews, Holocaust survivors, and all humans: The need to find peace in suffering, closure for the soul’s wounds, and order from chaos. This most human requirement calls to all people, particularly in life’s twilight years, but to none more than the survivors of war and genocide.

In the global chaos of World War II, with communities scattered and families wrenched apart, clearly far more than cities were destroyed by bombs and ideology. When the very being of an entire people was invalidated and their worth as humans called into question, the resulting affliction burdened people all over the world. The need to heal and find comfort and reconciliation also has been experienced by all peoples.

Order From Chaos is a present day drama-documentary chronicling one man’s drive to overcome his pain and make peace with his suffering. While this film is rooted in history, it is not a historical film. The documentary follows World War II survivor Albert Ketzenger and his journey back through the chaos of war and imprisonment, love and loss, and the search for resolution. As Albert crosses continents to rediscover his life’s love and roots, we experience a story that can unite the experiences of Shoah survivors and all people.

What draws viewers into Albert’s story, what makes it inspirational, what makes people identify, or want to identify, with the character? In this case it is the sheer mass of courage, focused determination, and, you would have to believe, grit that Albert demonstrated not once, but thrice: First in joining the resistance, fighting Franco’s regime, and escaping repeated capture; second in retuning to Europe and revisiting the places where his suffering had been most intense in order to nurture a sense of closure and an ability to move on; and lastly in taking the healing he found within himself and sharing it with his family to generate love, closeness, and understanding before his lifetime ended.

Albert’s days were not the times of airline ticket purchases over one’s Blackberry and new clothing purchases via American Express upon arrival. The heroism required for Albert to survive war and imprisonment is far greater than many of us will know. That he escaped the labor camp is larger than life; that he then evaded the Nazis for years, traveled the globe searching for his love, changed identity and took on new occupations repeatedly, and finally succeeded, makes him a sort of modern archetype. When we hear of Albert’s journeys and challenges, we will wonder, Is that seed of courage inside of me also? If life demanded, could I rise up and go to the same extremes? Would I do this for nation or for love?

Viewers of Order From Chaos witness in Albert’s deeds a heroism that seems not to exist today, in the twilight years of what Tom Brokaw called the Greatest Generation. Right or wrong, pro or con, this generation of fighters and survivors has been held up as the deities of our recent history. We have admired them and been inspired by them, and their successes can be felt by all people. Albert rose to great heights in external life; his make it impossible to not feel direct empathy for the losses suffered among individuals, whether the viewer is Jew or gentile.

Perhaps inwardly his courage is even more considerable.

Interview with Susan Frances @ Jazz Review USA

http://www.jazzreview.com/article/review-7464.html

DVD TBR by 2010

More TBA...

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THIS PROJECT IS CANCELLED:

POETREE

A film by Ana Isabel Ordonez & François Olivieri

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -
-- Edgar Allan Poe, Alone

This film focuses on the amazing life and legacy of writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe. It will be combined with dance performance, Djs and Vjs.

16 mm, black & white format, silent movie, 90 min

Music & Musicians : TBA

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2008-2009 Projects

CONSILIENCE AND ALTRUISM: OF THE OTHER WAY OF THINKING AND STEPHANIE STONE

A Bio-Musical-Imaginative- Theoretical tribute written and created by Ana Isabel Ordonez
Improvisation patterns by Herb Robertson
Design created by Claude Marc Bourget

Avant-propos:
The sense of exhilaration that characterizes Herb Robertson’s experiences under improvisation patterns is heightened for his new sextet as storytellers by his complicated, naïve and sincere intellectual and emotional activity exertion and by the intensity of struggling with a creative process under the pressure of a string steady beat. From the outset of this performance improvisers will enter in an artificial world of time in which reactions to the unfolding events of Stephanie’s piano notes must be immediate. The consequences of their music and action will be irreversible.

THE SUBSTANCE STRINGS, THE ALCHEMY OF ALTRUSIM, THE SOUND, THE CONSILIENCE, THE EMOTIONS…
During this performance Herb Robertson’s sextet similarly enter in a piece of progression at six designed keys and tempo and keep track of their mettered progress to the form of the whole design taking great rhythmic liberties. They might or might no playing inside the time; they double up or trip up on the tempo—improvising patterns precisely twice or three times as fast as the beat. In the core instances alchemic calculations guides excursions outside the time. Superimposed metric frames aid in placing pitches with rhythmic accuracy at finely distinguish on abstract points to the reality of the underlying strings thereby creating subtle organic elements (insects) of syncopation and polyrhythmic activities.

World Premiere New York City

16th November 2008

The Stone, NYC

www.thestonenyc.com

“CONSILIENCE AND ALTRUISM: OF THE OTHER WAY OF THINKING AND STEPHANIE STONE”

“A Bio-Musical Imaginative Theoretical Tribute” written and created by Ana Isabel Ordonez
Improvisational patterns and concepts by Herb Robertson
Design created by Claude Marc Bourget
Performed by: The Herb Robertson Sextet

Herb Robertson sextet with Marty Erhlich, David Taylor, Terry McManus , Mark Helias & Jay Rosen

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“M & NEO NOIR"

A conversing, visual, collective graphic/musical interaction with audience and different settings.
Conceived & written by Ana Isabel Ordonez
Composed Neo-Noir scores by Herb Robertson
Design by Claude Marc Bourget
Performed by Noir Neo-Bouquet Band

In this performance the accent will be based on behaviour during a musical and graphical event with the spontaneous attitudes of performers which will aid the audience to assess the musical moment and interpret their subtleties. During the graphic/performance, viola and trumpet accompanied by piano and saxophone will build their solos to a peak of great intensity then resolve it by strumming several chords on the downbeat of the final turnaround with pronounced sweeping movements across the viola/trumpet bodies. In a sense listeners and musicians will play interactive roles of actors from their perspective platform.
Some audience members look for drama in performers and the aim will be to touch upon that when musicians are presenting their songs. They will play the music as it’s written but they will accent strongly in the manner of the notes which originally would be without any accent. They will increase the music’s rhythmic complexity by accenting the weaker upbeats in a four-beat measure. By imposing a contrasting rhythmic frame of reference upon that, implicit in the music, listeners and musicians will create a dual accentuation scheme that exerts an alternating pull upon the music from one beat to the next and imbues the performance with a rocking, swinging quality like the dynamic motion of a pendulum. Unlike classic Noir, Neo-noir films are aware of modern circumstances and technology. Identity crises, memory issues subjectivity and technological problems and their social ramifications are enlightened as it can be applied to fictional works. As in fiction and projecting an M as for Movie, Monkeytown, Montgomery, and Mystery… we will present in four interactive screens original conceived Neo-Noir images …. The letter M represents spiritual leadership, though the characters consider themselves personages of long suffering. They do have a tranquil attitude towards life in general and expect the same of others. It takes a lot to anger them but once their ire has been ignited, they are not easily extinguished. The performances comprise a constantly changing environment around the orbit of the time line and it will underlie polymetric foundations.

World Premiere- New York City

20th November 2008

Monketown, Brooklyn NY

www.monkeytownhq.com

“M and Neo-Noir” performed by The Noir Neo-Bouquet Band with Herb Robertson, Mat Maneri, Chris Olsen & guests

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2008 Project-- Shades of Jazz on Noir (film/performance/workshop project)

SHADES OF JAZZ ON NOIR

See brochure here

A Film by
Ana Isabel Ordonez

SCREENPLAY, SCREEN BOARD & WRITINGS BY
Ana Isabel Ordonez

WORKSHOP CONCEIVED BY
Herb Robertson

NARRATED BY
Yoon Sun Choi

FILM EDITED BY
Auke Dijkstra & Raymond Grimbergen

MUSIC PERFORMED BY
Freak Lip Kill Band

DIRECTED AND PRODUCED BY
Ana Isabel Ordonez & Herb Robertson

FEATURING
Freak Lip Kill Band

The Shades of Jazz on Noir film presents excerpts from the classic film noir works of the 1940s and 1950s crafted to express the fatality, passion, and danger created by directors who pioneered the lively lighting techniques and psychologically expressive approach to classic noir.
Shades of Jazz on Noir is projected onto a large screen as documentary and is the second instalment of a film noir and jazz series created for Luxembourg European Cultural Capital 2007. The first film, A Touch of Noir was a view from the wounded male perspective ala James Dean and has been performed in Europe (Luxembourg, Netherlands). Shades of Jazz on Noir is viewed from the Femme Fatale of those classics creating a fresh and unusual media experience. Shades of Jazz on Noir will combine the passion and despondency of classic film noir with the texture and dynamism of modern improvisation, resulting in a unique, growth oriented experience for students of film, jazz and new music.

Avant première SHADES OF JAZZ ON NOIR film/performance

15th March 2008 Swinoujscie, Poland Centrala Jazz Club

www.centrala.pl

Performed by Freak Lip Kill Band

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Shades of Jazz on Noir & A Touch of Noir

--World premiere USA April 2008--

6th April 2008 - Roulette Performance Center--New York City

www.roulette.org/events/2008_04.html

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance
Performed by Herb Robertson Freak Lip Kill Band

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15th April 2008 - Southern Connecticut State University

http://www.southernct.edu/events/concertfilmsha_6278/

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance

Performed by David Chevan Freak Lip Kill Band

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16th April 2008 - Townson University Center for the Arts-Maryland

www.towson.edu/centerforthearts/calendar.htm

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance-workshop
Performed by Dave Ballou Freak Lip Kill Band

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18April 2008- MonkeyTown Brooklyn, NY

www.monkeytownhq.com

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-femme fatal performance

Brett Sroka, Herb Robertson, Matt Darriau, Carl Maguire, Chris Olsen

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22nd-23rd April 2008- Augusta Savage Gallery-Massachusetts University

www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/augusta/allEvents.html

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance-workshop
Herb Robertson, Avery Sharpe, Bob Weiner, Marty Ehrlich

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EUROPE

May 2008

30th April- 2nd May Film& Jazz Festival Gyor-Hungary

http://mwave.irq.hu/

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance-workshop
Performed by Herb Robertson Freak Lip Kill Band

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3rd-May 2008 Slovakia Film & Jazz Festival

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance
Performed by Herb Robertson Freak Lip Kill Band

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9th - May 2008 Ring-Ring Festival, Jevrejska-Serbia
"Shades of Jazz on Noir" film-performance
Performed by Szilárd Mezei Freak Lip Kill Band
www.ringringpromotions.org

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September

Poland Tour

"Shades of Jazz On nOir" performed by Anna Zielinska

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22nd November-NUBLU NEW YORK

www.nublu.net

Performance/Movie Screening “Shades of Jazz on Noir” performed by the Freak Lip Kill Band with Herb Robertson, Nasheet Waits, Alexis Cuadrado, Oscar Perez, Elliot Levin & Mat Maneri
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23rd November-Cornelia Street Cafe New York

Performance/Movie Screening “Shades of Jazz on Noir” performed by the Freak Lip Kill Band with Herb Robertson, Chris Olsen, Mat Maneri & guests

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2009

28th January 2009 - Siraly, Budapest-Hungary

Parodies & Crimes on Neo-Noir" performed by David Dely, Istvan Jeszsenszky & Árpád Oláh Tzumo

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30th January 2009-CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, Budapest-Hungary

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" performed by David Dely, Istvan Jeszsenszky & Árpád Oláh Tzumo

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24t & 25th March 2009 POLAND

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" performed by Ramon Lopez, Joe Fonda & Michael Musillami

24th March-Cervantes Instituto Krakow

25th March - Cervantes Instituto Warsaw

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15th April 2009 - Galapagos Art Space Brooklyn New York

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" performed by Alexis Cuadrado Freak Lip Kill Trio

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30th April 2009--Douglass Street Music Collective Brooklyn NY

Performance/Movie Screening “Shades of Jazz on Noir” performed by the Freak Lip Kill Band with Tanya Kalmanovich, Herb Robertson, Angelica Sanchez, Nasheet Waits, Elliot Levin & David Chevan

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16th May 2009 Bowery Poetry Club New York

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" performed by Angelica Sanchez, Tony Malaby, Herb Roertson, Jay Rosen & guest

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15th October 2009 Off Jazz Festival, Poland

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" music performed by Slawek Jakulke Band

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9th November 2009- Consulate of Luxembourg, New York

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" performed by Ernie Hammes, Jay Anderson & Jay Rosen

More coming soon....

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2010

February 2010 -DESINGEL, Anvers-Belgium

"Shades of Jazz on Noir" performed by Michiel Braam, Wolter Wierbos, Ralph Alessi, Wilbert De Joode & Michael Vatcher

http://www.desingel.be/en/ProductionDetailView.orb?pr_id=8851

More coming soon...

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A TOUCH OF NOIR

(edited version)

See Brochure here

A Film by
Ana Isabel Ordonez & François Oilivieri

FILM Re-EDITED BY
Auke Dijkstra & Raymond Grimbergen

Premiere USA April 2008

9th April 2008 - The Stone--New York City

www.thestonenyc.com

"A Touch of Noir " documentary film-performance

Herb Robertson, Matt Darriau, Lotte Anker, Gerry Hemingway & Terry McManus

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20th April 2008 - Barbès Brooklyn NY

www.barbesbrooklyn.com

"A Touch of Noir " documentary film-improvised scores

Matt Darriau & Herb Robertson feat. Bad Big City Band

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November

20th November--Monkeytown Brooklyn NY

www.monkeytownhq.com

"A Touch of Noir" performed by Bad City Band with Herb Robertson, Chris Olsen, Mat Maneri & guests

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21st November--SMALLS JAZZ CLUBS, NYC

www.smallsjazzclub.com

"A Touch of Noir" performed by Bad City Band with Nasheet Waits, Herb Robertson, Alexis Cuadrado, Mat Maneri & Elliot Levin.

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23rd November --DROM NEW YORK

www.dromnyc.com

" A Touch of Noir" Performed by Bad City Band with Nasheet Waits, Oscar Perez, Herb Robertson, Alexis Cuadrado, Mat Maneri & Adam Neiwood.

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28th December- GUARNERIUS Belgrade-Serbia

"A Touch of Noir" film by François Olivieri & Ana Isabel Ordonez

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31st January 2009- Take Five, Budapest-Hungary

"A Touch of Noir" performed by David Dely, Istvan Jeszsenszky & Árpád Oláh Tzumo

More coming soon....

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2007 project : Jazz & Film Noir -- Project Luxembourg 2007

A TOUCH OF NOIR jazz on movies

A Film by
Ana Isabel Ordonez & François Olivieri

Featuring
Michiel Braam
Auke Dijkstra
Bad Big City Band

Bad Big City Band

Line up premiere (1^st June 2007 Aciérie de Dudelange)

Michiel Braam-piano
Wilbert De Joode-bass
Thilo Krigar-cello
Terry Jenoure-violin, vocals
Gerry Hemingway-percussion, drums
Herb Robertson-cornet, trumpets, prepared trumpet, mutes, and toys
Wolter Wierbos-trombone
Steve Potts-soprano saxophone
Frank Graktowski-clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone

Bad Big City Band

Lineup (14^th December BimHuis Amsterdam)

Michiel Braam-piano
Santiago Botero-bass
Jörg Brikmann-cello
Rick Sturtewagen -violin
Michael Vatcher-percussion, drums
Herb Robertson-cornet, trumpets, prepared trumpet, mutes, and toys
Wolter Wierbos-trombone
Roby Glod-soprano saxophone
Frank Graktowski-clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone

SPONSORED BY
Dutch Embassy Luxembourg
American Embassy Luxembourg
Ville de Dudelange
Sofitel Hôtel Luxembourg
Imprimerie Kremmer & Müller
Domaine Viticole Cep D’Or
Côtage Hôtel Dudelange
Foyer Assurances
Ruby Flower Records
Association « La Belle Usine » a.s.b.l.

MEDIA
Radio ARA
100,7 Radio Luxembourg
Le Jeudi
La Voix
Le Quotidien
Tageblatt
Jazzreview USA
All About Jazz New York

FILM EDITED BY
Auke Dijkstra & Raymond Grimbergen

COMPOSED MUSIC BY
Michiel Braam

DIRECTED BY
Ana Isabel Ordonez & François Olivieri

Pictures Première A TOUCH OF NOIR (1st June 2007 Aciérie Dudelange)

1st June 2007-Aciérie Dudelange. A TOUCH OF NOIR première
authors and Bad Big City Band:
Wilbert De Joode, Thilo Krigar, Terry Jenoure, Gerry Hemingway, Michiel Braam, Wolter Wierbos, Ana Isabel Ordonez, François Olivieri, Frank Gratkowski, Herb Robertson, Pascal Schumacher, Steve Potts.

Last Updated ( Thursday, 12 August 2010 )