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Wolf's exceptional documentary "Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts" seeks to tells its subject's story in a deeply personal way, while also pulling back when needed to contextualize his work.
Apr 15, 2021 · ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’: Film Review. Jeffrey Wolf celebrates the work of Bill Traylor, who survived slavery to become an artist in his mid-80s.
Apr 15, 2021 · In his drawings he often looked back — to moments of respite from the traumatic world he grew up in, such as afternoons at a local swimming hole. “I see his work as a pill for the pain ...
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Apr 16, 2021 · Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts (2021) NR, 1 hr 15 min. This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. 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 ...
Apr 16, 2021 · An unruffled and straightforward new documentary from filmmaker Jeffrey Wolf wants to reclaim the legacy of that vanished artist, and “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts” effectively manages to do ...
Apr 15, 2021 · Movie Reviews ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’: Film Review. Jeffrey Wolf celebrates the work of Bill Traylor, who survived slavery to become an artist in his mid-80s. By John DeFore.
