Otti - Life in Jazz

Otti Kitzler, 1942-1978, lived and worked in Vienna. At an early age he began to play the trumpet, years after he got to know Jazz, chewing gum and chocolate introduced by American soldiers. His parents supported him in becoming the best Jazz trumpet player. In 1964, he won the Jazz Festival of amateurs as the best solo musician in Austria. Studio recordings, the production of an EP and LP followed. His worldwide fame and success was also supported by "duells". These competitions of trumpet players profiled him in permanent competition in the fight for the top. Otti was the founder of Barrelhouse Jazzband 1959 in Vienna. Whether he practiced, played concerts or with his friends, friends and family had fun, and he was always "Hot Otti" with a perfect hearing, physical strength and breathing techniques to generate air columns and to shape tones with lips. The aim is a biographical documentary film about my daddy Otti, the analysis of backgrounds of his life; to show references to and integration into the global music and jazz scene; the reference of his passion for music of African origin and earlier jazz musicians' interpretations and auditory events in the first jazz clubs; but also his ambition to collect unheard tracks from Africa at that time. Traditional music, songs, instrumental performances and musical experiments influenced his musical career.

 Crowdfunding Otti 

The financing of the project with crowdfunding makes it possible to let the audience participate in the success of the project: Working in archives, papers, documents, and activating the contacts should be maintained, firstly. To create a project base there are needed assets to promote collections of material, content creation, more conceptual work, international correspondence, telephone calls on * .mp3 and research. Image and sound material can be localized, as well as other media sources. Any license fees are separately loaded and negotiated. Here is the link: https://www.mycrowd.at/projects/1630 

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movies

Waehrend Schauspielunterricht bei Edgar Fell sammelte ich vorerst Erfahrung als Komparsin. Freilich musste permanent und zielorientiert anrufen, wieder anrufen und nochmal anrufen. Dialekte habe ich nie erlernt, vielleicht ein paar Worte Sinn verstanden und die Aussprache phonetisch geuebt. Ich fand es nicht richtig meine Kleidung fuer die Drehs mitnehmen zu muessen, dauernd irgendwelche Bemerkungen ueber meine Hosen oder Maentel zu hoeren - das Ueberleben kostete Kraft genug. Nebulose Versprechungen, deren vertragliche Absicherung verwehrt wurden und kein Interesse seitens diverser Agenturen beendeten diese kurze Phase meines Lebens. / During my acting lessons cluster with Edgar Fell I started to work as an extra: I was nerved that I had to bring my clothes and to spend hours and hours on set. I quit when there were promises without contracts and a quarter of the money promised. This is an approximate list - I did not write down all the endless castings and photo dates.

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Project EEG 1999

EEG Filmprojekt mit der Idee von Michael Mattuschka 1999. Oben: Notizen und Assoziationen. / EEG movie project, idea by Michael Mattuschka 1999. Above are my sketches and associations.

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Photos

Dies ist auch ein Teil einer Aussendung, und zwar fuer Agenturen.

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Card 2001

Kurzbeschreibung meiner Arbeit im Schauspiel

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Bass 1985 - 1988

Sybil Amber mit den Razorblade am Bass 1985 bis 1988 (Ich weiss leider nicht mehr, wer die Photos geschossen hat.)

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Ulysses Action Reading WUK

© Susanne Karr und Sybil Amber 1993 WUK Bloomsday

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Space Rescue: Performance

Space Rescue: Druckplatte / Performance

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messing line: fashion show

messing Line Concept: Fashion Show by Thomas Jelinek & Sybil Amber 1992

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1980: The Winds Of War, D: Zemeckis

This is my first apearance for the silver screen. I never saw the movie, but I remember the awful situation, when everywhere here, they put on those oldbadnaziflags. I threw up on set, everything was so real.

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Theater 1990: Market - Water - War

Th. Jelinek´s concepts for this action theater derived from hours of talks. The performance happened at the Vienna fleamarket, sixth district. Actors and performers tried to catch the audience for themes like the problematic politics concerning nature, water distribution and more. Some actors, like me, participated in carrying dead plants on deathbeds, some tried to involve the audience by "selling" water. Well, we did not take money, but acted symbolically. The theme is hot, anyway. In countries like Austria water with the quality of "drink water" are used everywhere, in parks to water the plants, in each and every toilet, and so on. The group messing then tried to put in words, what others did not dare. We need worldwide water politics, a better understanding of nature and, last but not least, humanitarian support.

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