In November 2019, Charles Lloyd made his highly acclaimed Pierre Boulez Saal debut, but two subsequent concerts planned for the 2020–21 season fell victim to the pandemic. Now the legendary jazz musician returns to Berlin for several days of events. The mini-festival opens with the big-screen premiere of Love Longing Loss. Created by Lloyd’s wife, painter and video artist Dorothy Darr, and commissioned by the Pierre Boulez Saal, this film portrait, first released in May 2021 for online streaming, documents the time spent in isolation at the couple’s home in Santa Barbara, California. In addition to presenting a number of solo performances, the film provides intimate insights into Charles Lloyd’s creative process.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with Charles Lloyd and Dorothy Darr.
In English
Dorothy Darr is a painter and visual artist whose work has been exhibited and is part of private collections around the world. At the age of five, she spent time in Mexico, which greatly influenced her color palette, and visiting Le Corbusier’s Chappelle de Notre Dame du Haut as a teenager had a significant impact on her appreciation of architecture and the use of light and space, while music has influenced her throughout her life. She has won numerous awards and had her work published in journals in the U.S., Japan, France, and Germany. With her husband, Charles Lloyd, she has co-produced his last 16 recordings and designed the cover art for all his ECM and Blue Note albums. She has made five documentaries relating to Lloyd’s life and work, including Memphis Is in Egypt (1996), Home (2004), Ben Ingram vs. the State of Mississippi (2009), Charles Lloyd: Arrows into Infinity (2013), and Love Longing Loss: At Home with Charles Lloyd During a Year of the Plague (2021).
