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Portrait of Jason
Jun 21 - Jun 27
(Shirley Clarke, 1967, USA, 35mm, 105 min)
New 35mm print!
Friday, Jun 21 at 07:00PM Friday, Jun 21 at 09:00PM Saturday, Jun 22 at 07:00PM Saturday, Jun 22 at 09:00PM Sunday, Jun 23 at 07:00PM Sunday, Jun 23 at 09:00PM Monday, Jun 24 at 09:00PM Tuesday, Jun 25 at 07:00PM Tuesday, Jun 25 at 09:00PM Wednesday, Jun 26 at 07:00PM Wednesday, Jun 26 at 09:00PM Thursday, Jun 27 at 07:00PM Thursday, Jun 27 at 09:00PM
Shirley Clarke's Portrait of Jason befriends one of the most unforgettable people you'll never meet. The year, 1967: an African-American gay man in a fitted blazer rehearses show tunes for an act he's never performed. Clarke builds a memorable cinematic portrait by focusing obsessively on Jason's dreams for himself (which he chatters about constantly, to anybody listening). Smoothly defying the constraints of genre and the impersonal perspective of classic documentary filmmaking, Portrait of Jason is a legendary character study that has transformed our understanding of self-perception for over 50 years.
"Says more about race, class, and sexuality than just about any movie before or since." Village Voice
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LocationNorthwest Film Forum (View)
1515 12th Ave
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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