Bill Traylor : chasing ghosts / Breakaway Films presents a film by Jeffrey Wolf ; directed and produced by Jeffrey Wolf ; written by Fred Barron ; producer, Daphne McWilliams, Jeany Nisenholz-Wolf, Fred Barron.
Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when 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, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a radically changing urban culture, becoming one of America's most prolific and essential artists.
Notes
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2018.
Featuring Russell G. Jones, Sharon Washington, Jason Samuels Smith ; interviewees, Nettie J. Trayler-Alford, Greg Tate, Roberta Smith, Leslie Umberger, Richard J. Powell, Radcliffe Bailey, Howard O. Robinson II, Frank L. Harrison, Antoinette S. Beeks, Myrtha Delks, Starlene Trayler Williams.
Language note
In English.
Contents
Bonus features: Deleted scenes
Trailer.
Other title(s)
Chasing ghosts
Publisher no.
K25444
OCLC
1247690751
Universal Product Code
738329254445
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