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Using historical and cultural context, Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts brings the spirit and mystery of Traylor's incomparable art to life. Making dramatic and surprising use of tap dance and ...
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Apr 9, 2021 · Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is a documentary by Breakaway Films, about a self-taught artist born into slavery in 1854 on an Alabama plantation. During the height of the Great Depression, in his 80's—homeless, jobless, and alone—Traylor began to draw on discarded pieces of cardboard, becoming a chronicler of his time and place.
Apr 16, 2021 · Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts: Directed by Jeffrey Wolf. With Russell G. Jones, Jason Samuels Smith, Greg Tate, Sharon Washington. An inventive feature documentary capturing the vivid life of Bill Traylor, who in his late 80s, living homeless on the street in the thriving segregated black neighborhood of Montgomery, produced a body of extraordinary art.
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Apr 13, 2021 · Bill Traylor was born into slave... This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slave...
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. The film is a compelling human narrative that gives voice to a man who endures a long life of extreme hardships during an era of legalized racial indignities, to become one of America's most prominent artists, exhibited in ...
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Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts. DOCUMENTARY. 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 late 1920s.
Apr 15, 2021 · An invaluable addition to our still-developing understanding of an artist whose fame raises thorny questions, Jeffrey Wolf’s Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts introduces a man whose distinctive ...
