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Portrait of Jason
According to Shirley Clarke, this is her response to the cinéma vérité works of Leacock and Pennebaker: Jason Holliday, a black male prostitute and aspiring nightclub entertainer, appears before the camera, speaks openly about his life, parodies, improvises and confesses. Filmed over the course of half a day – from nine in the evening until nine in the morning. Jason Holliday’s monologues were interrupted only to change the film in the camera. Portrait of Jason owes its remarkable intensity to the intimate relationship between protagonist and camera that emerged as a result. Shirley Clarke: “For the first time, I was able to suppress my compulsion to control everything, letting Jason and the camera react to one another.” A performance film, “life” in front of the camera. (C.H.)