Evening
Series/Themes: LGBTQIA+ Focus
Film Year: 2015
Locations: USA
Film Length: 79 min.
Languages: English
Director: Stephen Winter.
Featuring: Mike Bailey-Gates, Gordon Beeferman, Jordan Saunders Brooks, Lee Ann Brown, Craig Cady, Lucas Carey.
In response to Shirley Clarke’s 1967 Portrait of Jason, filmmaker Stephen Winter offers an imaginative look into the making of the documentary. Based on Clarke’s original 12-hour film shoot in her Chelsea Hotel apartment, Winter digs into the complicated power dynamics of the relationship between the documentarian and Jason, a gay Black man. A hybrid of drama, fantasy, and documentary, the film exposes the heightened emotions and power struggles that arose as a part of Shirley Clarke (Sarah Schulman) and Jason Holliday’s (Jack Waters) artistic process. Discussion with director Stephen Winter, moderated by Kwame Otu (UVA)
Supported by UVA Black Queer Cinema Series and Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights
6:30 PM
Vinegar Hill Theatre