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Kino Lorber |
Release Date:
April 16, 2021
Summary:
Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture. Having witnessed profound social and political change during a life spanning slavery, Reconstruction, Jim Crow segregation, and the Great Migration, Traylor devised his own visual language to translate an oral culture into something original, powerful, and culturally rooted. He made well over a thousand drawings and paintings between 1939-1942. This colorful, strikingly modernist work eventually led him to be recognized as one of America’s greatest self-taught artists and the subject of a Smithsonian retrospective. [Kino Lorber]
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Details
| Runtime: | 75 min |
| Rating: | Not Rated |
| Official Site: | https://www.kinolorber.com/film/view/id/4727 |
| Production: | Breakaway Films NY |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Country: | US |
| Language: | English |
| Home Release Date: | Jun 22, 2021 |
| Director | Credit |
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| Jeffrey Wolf | Director |
| Writer | Credit |
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| Fred Barron | Writer |
| Principal Cast | Credit |
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| Jason Samuels Smith | Tap Dancer |
| Russell G. Jones | Principal Cast |
| Sharon Washington | Principal Cast |
| Producer | Credit |
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| Daphne McWilliams | Producer |
| Fred Barron | Producer |
| Jeany Nisenholz-Wolf | Producer |
| Jeffrey Wolf | Producer |
| Samuel D. Pollard | Executive Producer |
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