Portrait of Jason
29/9/2015,22:30,Δαναός 2 3/10/2015,22:30,ODEON Οπερα 2
Jason Holliday is a black, homosexual street hustler, who struggles for survival in a world that constantly marginalizes him. This ad hoc one-man-show prompted Ingmar Bergman to declare it the most incredible film he had ever seen.
Jason Holliday is an African-American homosexual man who tries to make money through prostitution and experiences a harsh daily routine in a world that marginalizes him and is hostile towards him. For a whole 109 minutes an improvised one-man-show is set up agreeing to talk directly to the film’s camera, unveiling his adventurous life with the help of quite a few glasses of alcohol and stirring the details of a turbulent past.
Long before the coordinated struggles of the gay community and of the whole of the African-American ethnic group for emancipation and better rights, Shirley Clarke was trying to describe exactly what it meant to be homosexual and black in a white America which was not yet ready to embrace sexual and racial diversity. In the face of the rugged and aggressively sincere Jason, Clarke found the ideal protagonist and accomplished through her documentary a thesis on the complex social and political structures of the 60’s in her country. She also persuaded Ingmar Bergman to state, after having watched the film, that it was the most incredible film he had ever seen.
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Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Shirley Clarke
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Jeri Sopanen
Μουσική / Music
Francis Daniel
Μοντάζ / Editor
Shirley Clarke
Εμφανίζονται / Featuring
Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke
Carl Lee
ΗΠΑ / USA
1967
Ασπρόμαυρο / Black & White
DCP
108'
Αγγλικά / English
