OCTOBER 27-29, 31

“Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. A woman working in a predominantly male world, a white director who turned her camera on black subjects, a Park Avenue rich girl who willed herself to become a dancer and a filmmaker, ran away to bohemia, hung out with the Beats, and held to her own vision in triumph and defeat. She helped inspire a new film movement and made urgently vibrant work that blurs fiction and nonfiction, only to be marginalized ... She died in 1997 at 77 and is long overdue for a reappraisal.”
MANOHLA DARGIS, NEW YORK TIMES

“An important pioneer ...An iconoclastic artist who is vital to the development of the medium ...Shirley Clarke’s work should continue to be screened, studied, and discussed.”
WILLIAM BLICK, SENSES OF CINEMA