Portrait of Jason (1967)
- Directed by
- Shirley Clarke
- Genre
- documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 42 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
The film is a long interview with Jason Holliday, a gay Black man and aspiring performer, as he talks about his life, work, and identity. It unfolds as a raw and revealing conversation captured by the filmmaker.
intimaterawconfessionalunflinchingconversationalprovocativecandid
What happens
Portrait of Jason is a 1967 documentary film directed, produced and edited by Shirley Clarke and starring Jason Holliday. 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". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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