Entitled Uptown Girl: The Cinema of Shirley Clarke, the program will showcase a variety of Clarke’s candid works, including the highly lauded explicit junkie-movie The Connection, Academy-Award-winning Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel With the World and The Cool World, a stark semi-documentary of the harsh reality of Harlem ghetto life.
“When I did The Connection,” explained Clarke, detailing the essence of her films. “I knew nothing about junk and care less. It was a symbol – people who are on the outside. I always felt alone, and on the outside of the culture that I was in.”
In addition to Clarke’s oeuvre, ACMI have added other films to its Uptown Girl program, including Agnés Varda’s Lion Love, Andy Warhol’s Chelsea Girls and Academy-Award-winning On the Bowery.
