Constantly experimenting filmmaker Robert Pennybacker explores the meeting of three art forms in "Jazz & The Creative Act: A Living Triptych."

He brings together film, music and visual arts in the two-night performance, which opens with the Honolulu Jazz Quartet playing their Hawai'i-bop as the audience views an exhibition of new works by painter Lauren Okano.

Then Pennybacker will screen his short film "Jazz & The Creative Act," featuring footage of the Honolulu Jazz Quartet inter-cut with shots of Okano painting to the music and dancer Pam Sandridge spontaneously moving to the music (sometimes on a car).

Following the film, the artists from the film will do their things live — the quartet will perform selections from their latest CD, "Tenacity," as Sandridge dances and Okano paints. While Okano tackles the canvas, Pennybacker will shoot her with a video camera, the image projected live.

Have questions about the event's conceptualism? The artists will hold a question-and-answer session following the performance.