Larry Clark (filmmaker)

Citizenship American
Alma mater UCLA
Employer San Francisco State University
Notable works Passing Through
Influenced by Cinema Novo, Cuban cinema
Influenced Cauleen Smith
Home town Cleveland, Ohio

Larry Clark (c. 1948- ) is one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion (also known as the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers). He directed the feature films, Passing Through (1977) and Cutting Horse (2002). He is also a film professor at San Francisco State University.[1][2]

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Clark received a bachelor's degree at Miami University, prior to arriving at UCLA, where he majored in film.[2]

While a student at UCLA, Clark taught film workshops at the Performing Arts Society of Los Angeles (PASLA), under the guidance of Vantile Whitfield.

Passing Through served as Clark's master thesis film at UCLA. The film stars Nathaniel Taylor (best known as "Rollo" on the hit television series, "Sanford and Son") and veteran actor Clarence Muse. Clark co-wrote the screenplay with actor Ted Lange. Matthew Duersten of the LA Weekly described the film as a "potent underground L.A. neorealist treatise" that "is raw, gritty, surreal and, at times, terrifying."[3]

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ King, Susan (2011-10-03). "The 'L.A. Rebellion' returns". Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Times. http://mobile.latimes.com/p.p?a=rp&postId=936509. Retrieved 2011-10-05. 
  2. ^ a b c d "Larry Clark" San Francisco, California: San Francisco State University http://www.cinema.sfsu.edu/faculty/80/larry-clark. Retrieved 2011-10-10 
  3. ^ Duersten, Matthew (2008-02-20). "Passing Through Again". L.A. Weekly (Los Angeles, California). http://www.laweekly.com/2008-02-21/film-tv/passing-back-through/. Retrieved 2011-10-10. "Released the same year as Charles Burnett's recently revived Killer of Sheep (1977), Larry Clark's Passing Through is another rarely seen but potent underground L.A. neorealist treatise that plumbs similar themes of the exploitation and degradation of black culture and posits jazz music as a revolutionary call to arms." 

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