Raises profound questions about the nature of the self, about the relationship between fiction and reality, and about the way that film doesnt simply record raw truth but shapes it into something reflecting the filmmakers vision of life. Portrait of jason a film by shirley clarke official. A restored print of shirley clarkes 1967 documentary. Jason statham 3d portrait digital sculpting by voronart. Not to manipulate truth, but to elicit a deeper truth. Portrait of jason is a fascinating, moving depiction of jason holliday, an african american gay prostitute and aspiring nightclub performer. Portrait of jason its perhaps fitting that steven soderberghwho won the palm dor at cannes in 1989 for his. Dec 02, 2012 this is the first clip from the newly restored portrait of jason, the classic documentary by shirley clarke. Jason holliday nee aaron payne is the soloist in front of the camera in shirley clarkes seminal 1967 documentary, portrait of jason. Portrait of jason 1967 stream and watch online moviefone.
Dennis doros is raising funds for portrait of jason film restoration on kickstarter. Portrait of jason 1967 portrait of jason 1967 user. The eponymous jason introduces himself at length, but later contradicts himself, admitting his real name is. Black gay prostitute jason holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character. Portrait of jason is an extended interview with its eponymous subject. In 2015, the united states library of congress selected the film for preservation in the national film registry, finding it culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Portrait of jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by shirley clarke and starring jason holliday ne aaron payne, 19241998 in 2015, the united states library of congress selected the film for preservation in the national film registry, finding it culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. Portrait of jason film restoration by dennis doros kickstarter. In other words, movies that are any good save peoples lives, and the 1967 film portrait of jasonwhich opened at ifc center on friday, in a deeptoned, richly textured, and most. Over twelve straight hours in shirley clarkes penthouse suite at the chelsea hotel in new york city, clarke and her small crew trained a.
Aug 23, 2015 the mechanic, the mechanic full movie, the mechanic full movie english, the mechanic full movie hd, the mechanic movie full, the mechanic full hd, the mechan. Portrait of jason is a 1967 experimental documentary film directed by shirley clarke it is a feature length interview of jason holliday, aka aaron payne 19241998, a friend of clarkes. Jason trautman is a member of vimeo, the home for high quality. Portrait of jason is a disturbing but fascinating 90minute exercise in the avant garde earlier prints ran 105 minutes.
Portrait of jason project shirley, volume two blu ray bluray. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Apr 17, 20 in other words, movies that are any good save peoples lives, and the 1967 film portrait of jasonwhich opened at ifc center on friday, in a deeptoned, richly textured, and most. While all her films explored that porous border between cinema verite and fiction portrait of jason, with its many ambiguities and contradictions, may well be clarke s masterpiece.
Portrait of jason and the life of movies the new yorker. Portrait of jason the official ifc trailer youtube. In portrait of jason, a campy queen and naturalborn star. Shirley clarkes groundbreaking documentary film is in jeopardy help us restore the print and release it for everyone to see. Shirley clarkes groundbreaking documentary film is in jeopardy. Reviews of the film continually point out that it cannot be categorised, not as documentary or phantasmagory, as audition reel or feature length interview. He is the star of shirley clarkes 1967 documentary portrait of jason. The painters cluttered, rundown studio is a strikingly claustrophobic stage for what is, much of the time, a static twohander and it must be said that hammers stalwart ability to. Portrait of jason is a movie starring jason holliday, shirley clarke, and carl lee. Ray anselmo hes black, hes gay, hes talented, hes tragic, hes stoned, hes faaaaaaaabulous. Painting and drawing seem a pale imitation of re ality compared to.
Jason holliday, real name aaron paine, a black homosexual and selfconfessed hustler, delivers an extended monologue about his life. Jason will be with you long after the movie has ended. Windy city times news archive knight at the movies. Shot in a single 12 hour take, this 1967 cinema verite doc takes us inside the life of jason holliday born aaron payne, a hustler and would be cabaret performer with a theatrical persona who smokes and giggles his way through outrageous stories from his past while sparring with. Peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason in her classic 60s documentary, shirley clarke profiles a loquacious 33yearold gay hustler who dreams of having a nightclub act. The eponymous jason introduces himself at length, but later contradicts himself, admitting his real name is aaron payne.
In a fairer world, portrait of jason would have done what shirley clarkes. Jason trautman is a member of vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Over twelve straight hours in shirley clarkes penthouse suite at the chelsea hotel in new york city, clarke and her small crew trained a camera on jason holliday and waited for him to detonate. Portrait of jason 1967 a black male prostitute and aspiring entertainer recounts his life story for filmmaker shirley clarke. Jason holliday, shirley clarke, carl lee, jeri sopanen. When asked by clarke early on what he does for a living, he succinctly responds, giggling. Portrait of jason is more than a lesson in literary history. A blend of the historic, the esoteric and the practical, it is an introductory volume that cant be beat as an introduction to serious portraiture. Final portrait is a captivating portrait of a haunted but exhilarating artist and an unlikely friendship between two totally different men, bonding through the blessing and curse of the artistic. Portrait of jason 1967 shot in one night over a breakneck twelvehour shoot with a sometimes temperamental camera, portrait of jason 1967 preserves the remarkable alignment of two fascinating personalities. Harry deutschmann is using 500px, the worlds most passionate photo sharing community.
I hustle im a stone whore, and im not ashamed of it. Forgive me for getting meanand this is not meant at any one personbut some of you put such garbage into your systems, on the regular. On the night of december 2, 1966, shirley clarke and a tiny crew convened in her apartment at the hotel chelsea to make a film. Even clarkes filmmaking prevaricates portrait of jason was designed and painstakingly put together to look rough and entirely unedited. Black gay prostitute jason holliday is rigorously interviewed on his story and character, revealing nuanced truths a. Its my old 3d model, which was made in zbrush two year ago. Proving that there is a wide variety within his sonic repertoire, the legend from leipzig shows that not only is he a seasoned expert at slinky tech house grooves but also funloving boompty stuff of the bass driven variety. I thought it was more important to be some kind of goddamned junkie who felt alienated rather than to say i. Portrait of jason shirley clarke, 1967 9pm saturday, december 3 rd 1966. It is a feature length interview of jason holliday, aka aaron payne 19241998, a friend of clarkes. Portrait of jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by shirley clarke and starring jason holliday ne aaron payne, 19241998. Holliday, a gay black man, had an eventful, tumultuous life with experiences that ranged from domestic servant to male prostitute to stage performer.
I thought it was more important to be some kind of goddamned junkie who. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing portrait of jason near you. A budding filmmaker has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film them. May 02, 20 peeling away the layers in a portrait of jason in her classic 60s documentary, shirley clarke profiles a loquacious 33yearold gay hustler who dreams of having a nightclub act. This is the official trailer for the april 19th new york opening of shirley clarkes portrait of jason, the american independent masterpiece restored by the academy film archive and milestone film. A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. Filmmaker shirley clarke interviews a male hustler full of stories, in the cinemaverite style.
Portrait of jason shirley clarke, 1967 senses of cinema. Shirley clarke, a pioneering and vibrant artist experimenting with new, honest takes on the documentary form, and jason holliday aka aaron payne, a resilient cabaret performer and. Download portrait of jason 1967 yify torrent for 720p. Jason holliday june 8, 1924 june 15, 1998 birth name. During the preceding year a rumour had circulated in stockholm that she had had an affaire with one of her assistants. In portrait of jason, a campy queen and naturalborn. This is the first clip from the newly restored portrait of jason, the classic documentary by shirley clarke.
The cinematography is shite and the editing is questionable, but jason irresistibly pulls you back in. The filmmaking process of portrait of jason deliberately interacts with the subject. Experimental filmmaker shirley clarke, produced, edited, directed and. There, for twelve straight hours they filmed the oneandonly jason holliday as he spun tales, sang, donned costumes and reminisced about good times and bad behavior as a gay hustler, sometime houseboy and aspiring cabaret performer. She received a letter, in which she was told that there had been strong opposition to her election not on. Watch the front row portrait of jason the new yorker video. Buy portrait of jason dvd 1967 from amazons movies store. Richard brody on shirley clarkes portrait of jason, from 1967.
Understanding portrait photography is a musthave book for anyone who is trying to best capture the human face and body. Shirley clarkes classic doc features a flamboyant cabaret performer. The junkies then talk the director into trying heroin to better understand the subject. Portrait of jason is all of those things at once and yet something else too. From todays perspective, as the movie begins, portrait of jason seems less like a vacation from american reality than a rocket ship into the future of gay liberation. Jason deutchman born september 27, 1987 is a filipinoamerican basketball player who last played for the kia picanto of the philippine basketball association pba. Oct 23, 2014 dennis doros is raising funds for portrait of jason film restoration on kickstarter. In the near future i plan to update the sculptural portrait of the english actor jason statham, prepare it for 3d printing, and print it out. Clarke was hip to all this, which is why the movie is titled portrait of jason and not simply jason. Provocative, groundbreaking and truly gripping, portrait of jason was one of the first lgbt films to be taken seriously by the general audiences and remains one of the most remarkable films in the history of american independent filmmaking. Moon harbour label chief matthias tanzmann makes a surprising addition to west coast bass house institution dirtybird. Jason halfmann tyler, 33 san angelo, tx has court or. For years id felt like an outsider, so i identified with the problems of minority groups. Dapper, blazered jason hollidayhes on camera, drinks and cigarettes in hand, for the entire filmis unlike any gay man who had ever been seen in a movie before.
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