Portrait of Jason (1967)
Le #film du jour, c’est pas un nanard du tout, c’est un film de Shirley Clarke.
“For years I’d felt like an outsider, so I identified with the problems
of minority groups. I thought it was more important to be some
kind of goddamned junkie who felt alienated rather than to say I
am an alienated woman who doesn’t feel part of the world and
who wants in.”
-- Shirley Clarke, 1976
Jason, est homme à tout faire, homme de ménage, "noir de maison", prostitué, gay qui aspire à se produire sur scène dans un cabaret. Il raconte pendant 1h47 sa vie, des souvenirs, il rit, pleure et dresse par ricochet un portrait acide de l’amérique des années 60, du racisme et de la vie d’un homme pauvre.
▻http://www.projectshirley.com/press/portraitofjason.pdf
PORTRAIT OF JASON is a film in which Jason Holliday is given the entire screen for an hour and 45 minutes, during which time he makes probably as candid a self-revelation as has been known in the history of motion pictures or literature. And yet, how much is true and how much is a performance? Shirley Clarke’s films were always exploring the border between cinema verité and fiction — and PORTRAIT OF JASON may well be her masterpiece.
Daring, provocative, ground-breaking and truly gripping, PORTRAIT OF JASON was one of the first LGBT films to be taken seriously by the general audiences. It remains one of the most remarkable films of American independent filmmaking.
▻https://vimeo.com/149171738▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK9qRfb7pbc#film #cinéma #lgbt #femmes #classe #noirs