Slideshow
HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY
Tuesday, December 10
6:45
Followed by a Q&A with Producer Andrew Moore, Film Subject Frances Beatty, and Ellen Levy, author of A Book About Ray – available for sale at our concession.
USA, 2002
Directed by John Walter
Produced by Andrew Moore
90 min. DCP.
A RASHOMON-like portrait of Ray Johnson, whose life and death — and all the art that came in between — made him “New York’s most famous unknown artist” (Grace Glueck, NY Times). Johnson was a fixture in New York City postwar bohemia: an engimatic, whimsical, latter-day Dadaist, collagist extraordinaire, and the father of mail art. His performances amused and astounded his who’s-who-in-the-art-world list of friends. Johnson had a way of blurring the boundaries between art and life: a buyer who convinced him to drop the price on a $2000 piece to $1500 received artwork with one quarter of the image removed. HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY fashions a biographical mystery tale from fascinating, often hilarious stories told by Johnson’s contemporaries, including Christo, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Judith Malina, Frances Beatty, Richard Feigen, James Rosenquist, and the Sag Harbor police chief who investigated his mysterious 1995 death. With original music by Max Roach. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival.
