JASON AND SHIRLEY

Co-presented with Harlem Stage as part of the ongoing series BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED

Jason and Shirley is screening Thursday, May 11 at 7:30 PM

Tickets: $15 General Admission/$7 Reduced Price 

Stephen Winter, 2015, 77 min.

Based on a historic events, Jason Holliday, a fabulous but downtrodden black, gay, middle-aged hustler and cabaret performer whose life revolves around sex, jazz and narcotics, competes with Shirley Clarke, a wealthy Jewish Oscar-winning female filmmaker over a documentary film about his life, during a marathon 12-hour shoot in her apartment at the legendary Chelsea Hotel.

Post-screening discussions with Jack Waters (in-person) and Stephen Winter and Sarah Schulman (Zoom)

“One of the year’s best” – Richard Brody (The New Yorker)

This program is part of Harlem Stage’s ongoing series, BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED, which examines the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s to the 1970s, and its relationship to race, gender, sexuality, music, photography, film, poetry, theater, and dance, as well as its intersectionality with the larger Black Power Movement. The Black Arts Movement was a cultural movement led by Black artists, activists, and intellectuals that shaped the ideologies of Black identity, political beliefs, and African American culture.