stackyFACTSShirley Clarke spent the early 1960s aggressively blurring the line between documentary and fiction, mostly to annoy the cinematic establishment.
Shirley Clarke spent the early 1960s aggressively blurring the line between documentary and fiction, mostly to annoy the cinematic establishment. Her film 'The Connection' featured actors playing jazz musicians waiting for heroin, and it was promptly banned by the New York censor board. Not because of the drug use, but because they repeatedly said a four-letter curse word. Clarke sued them, won, and single-handedly paved the way for modern indie cinema's favorite vocabulary.
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