Portrait of Jason
Most recently screened in December 2012
Director: Shirley Clarke. Autobiographical testimony of cabaret performer and self-confessed hustler Jason Holliday, administered by offscreen interviewers Shirley Clarke and Carl Lee.
Twitter Capsule: Jason's active collaboration and Clarke's deft self-ironizing trump camera's zooish, exploitative gaze. Seminal.

Photo © 1967 Shirley Clarke, © 2006 Second Run DVD
Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–


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