JASON AND SHIRLEY REVISITED

A radical revisitation. This updated version of Stephen Winter’s 2015 film unearths the ghosts of Jason and Shirley, restaging the volatile 12-hour shoot of the 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason—held at the Chelsea Hotel—which blurred the line between subject and storyteller. Jason Holliday (Jack Waters), a sharp-witted Black gay man, whose identity splits between personas–performer, hustler, muse, provocateur–is once again in the room with Shirley Clarke (queer pioneer Sarah Schulman), the Oscar-winning filmmaker who insisted on framing his life.

Now, with newly unearthed footage, Stephen Winter returns 10 years later, not to resolve the contradictions, but to reopen them. What was once a document becomes a haunting, a conversation with what was left outside the frame. Time folds. Power shifts. And Jason, still impossible to contain, speaks back.

“Iconic New York filmmaker Stephen Winter is a genius at crafting brilliant stories weaving acute social criticism that leaves no one indifferent. This time, the director of CHOCOLATE BABIES, unearths and revisits the behind the scenes story of Jason Holliday and Shirley Clarke, with memorable performances by Jack Waters and Sarah Shulman. An arresting and vital film experience.” – Anton Astudillo, Programmer

Stephen Winter

Sarah Schulman, Jack Waters, Stephen Winter

Jack Waters, Sarah Schulman, Orran Farmer, Tony Torn, Peter Cramer, Eamon Fahey, Tristan Cowen, Mike Bailey Gates, Denise Dixon