Portrait of Jason

Name: Portrait of Jason
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1967-09-29
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Jason Holliday, Shirley Clarke, Carl Lee

Criterion Channel

OVID

Metrograph

Kino Film Collection

6.4(40 votes)

1967

1h 45m

Documentary

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Overview

Interview with Jason Holliday aka Aaron Payne. House-boy, would-be cabaret performer, and self-proclaimed hustler giving one man's gin-soaked, pill-popped view of what it was like to be black and gay in 1960s United States. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Milestone Films in 2013.