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KEN BURNS GIVE YOU SOMETHING
(2001)

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"KEN BURNS JOB ISN'T A JOB KEN BURNS HAVE THE BEST WORK IN AMERICA SO KEN BURNS WANT JAZZ TO WASH OVER KEN BURNS AND IN THE TRANSLATION OF IT GIVE YOU SOMETHING."
-Kent Lambert

"Redeems (?) the whitest man in America, Ken Burns, by making him scat, riff and syncopate more than all the hours of his multi-PBS JAZZ series ever attempted. The void of the PBS drone is regenerated in a cut and slice Shiva dance of creation."
-Kyle Henry, Cinematexas

"Lambert tries to find the essence of the documentarian's film treatise on jazz."
-New York Video Festival

Running time: 3 minutes 30 seconds

screenings

Thaw Festival, Iowa City, April 2001 -- Jury Prize (awarded by Animal Charm), April 2001
San Francisco Independent Film Festival: Digital Video Underground, July 2001
Chicago Underground Film Festival, August 2001
Other Cinema, San Francisco, December 2001
New York Underground Film Festival, March 2002
Maryland Film Festival, May 2002
New York Video Festival, July 2002
20,000 Leagues Under the Industry Film Festival, Cleveland, August 2002
Cinematexas, September 2002
"TV or Not TV" -- L.A. Freewaves, November 2002
"The Year in Avant-Garde", Ed Halter, Village Voice, December 2002
Discount Cinema, Chicago, January 2003
Splice Festival, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, May 2003
Film at the Prince, Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia, October 2003
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, October 2003
"Dialogue with Pop", Spaceworks @ The Tank, NYC, April-May 2004

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