SHIRLEY CLARKE

No NYT online de hoje não podia deixar de reparar-se num trabalho sobre Shirley Clarke que começa assim:DANCER, bride, runaway wife, radical filmmaker and pioneer — Shirley Clarke is one of the great undertold stories of American independent cinema. A woman working in a predominantly male world, a white director who turned her camera on black subjects, she was a Park Avenue rich girl who willed herself to become a dancer and a filmmaker, ran away to bohemia, hung out with the Beats and held to her own vision in triumph and defeat. She helped inspire a new film movement and made urgently vibrant work that blurs fiction and nonfiction, only to be marginalized, written out of histories and dismissed as a dilettante. She died in 1997 at 77 and is long overdue for a reappraisal. Dá gosto divulgar mulheres destas de onde quer que elas sejam. Na circunstância,  uma mulher que se destacou num mundo predominantemente masculino -  cinema independente americano - como está assinalado. Uma cena de uma obra de Shirley Clarke:

      A scene from “The Connection,” with, from left: Jim Anderson, William Redfield and Garry Goodrow