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Tribute to Shirley Clarke (1919-1997)

Shirley Clarke’s works and her singular way of composing with “reality” and documentary material, her commitment and her camera’s choreographies are always worth (re) discovering, especially the too rarely shown Portrait of Jason.

Lions Love (… and Lies)

Agnès Varda, 110’ Prod. Max. L. Rabb, Agnès Varda, 1969 Viva (Warhol’s star), Jim and Jerry (actors from Hair) live together on a Hollywood hill. They also take in a fi lmmaker (Shirley Clarke), who is having trouble adapting to the (...)

Rome is Burning. Portrait of Shirley Clarke

André S. Labarthe, Noël Burch, 55’ Prod. Amip, La Sept/Arte, Ina (coll. Cinéastes de notre temps), 1968-1996 January ’68: in a New York apartment, Shirley Clarke answers questions from her visitors, who include Jacques Rivette and Jean-Jacques (...)

Tongues

20’ Coll Mnam/Cci, 1981-1982 Shirley Clarke’s camera dances to the monologue of Sam Shepard. Saturday March 8th 9.00pm, Cinéma 2

The Connection

90’ Prod. Lewis Allen, Shirley Clarke, 1961 In a squalid apartment, five junkies, together with a few jazz musicians, impatiently await their dealer’s arrival. They wait and talk in front of a filmmaker who has come with his cameraman to (...)

The Cool World (Harlem Story)

105’ Prod. Wisemanfi lms, 1963 A group of black kids from Harlem embody the ghetto’s reality in the scenario of an America steeped in discrimination, poverty and violence. Saturday March 8th 7.00pm, Cinéma 2 Saturday March 15th 5.30pm, (...)

Portrait of Jason

99’ Prod. Shirley Clarke, 1967 Jason Holliday stages himself and talks about himself. He is a black, homosexual and a hustler. The dialogue with Shirley Clarke and Carl Lee (an actor in The Connection) becomes a thoughtful questioning (...)
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