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"It’s a funny feeling, having a picture made about you. I feel sort of grand sitting here carrying on. People are gonna be digging ya, or I’ll be criticized, I’ll be loved or hated — what difference does it make? I am doing what I want to do and it’s a nice feeling that somebody is taking a picture of it. This is a picture I can save forever. No matter how many times I goof, I’ll have something of my own. For once in my life I was together and this is the result of it. It is a nice feeling." - the one and only Jason Holliday in Shirley Clarke's documentary PORTRAIT OF JASON. 

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Happy Female Filmmaker Friday! Via Underground Film Journal here is the transcript of a conversation between filmmakers Shirley Clarke & Storm de Hirsch published in Film Culture magazine in Oct 1968. Enjoy! 🎥

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On this day: Shirley Clarke's THE CONNECTION premiered October 3, 1962 in NYC. It was her debut feature. An adaptation of Jack Gelber’s Off-Broadway play about a group of jazz musicians waiting for their heroin “connection,” jamming away in a dingy Greenwich Village apartment.

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On Oct 2, 1967, Shirley Clarke's PORTRAIT OF JASON was theatrically released, starring the inimitable Jason Holliday. Here are some of the many memorable lines from Jason: "I’ve spent so much of my life being sexy that I haven’t gotten anything else done. I’ve been balling from Maine to Mexico. I haven’t a dime to show for it, but I had a swell time."

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Celebrating the week's end with Shirley Clarke (looking through a camera and seated on the couch) at Andy Warhol's Factory on Aug 31, 1965. Andy is to the right of his cow print. Edie Sedgwick & John Ashbery were also at the party. 📷: Fred McDarrah

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A Moment in Love, 1956 (dir. Shirley Clarke)

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Shirley Clarke playing herself - and looking fabulous - in “Lion’s Love and Lies” (1968) by the great Agnès Varda.

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Making a portrait of Jason is like trying to capture a butterfly in a bottle. #Portrait of Jason #Shirley Clarke #1967 #cinema #undergroundfilm #indiefilm

Portrait of Jason (1967)