This month's Queer Cinema Club will take us back to 1967 with a film truly unlike anything else: Shirley Clarke's astounding documentary Portrait of Jason.  Centered on sex worker and aspiring cabaret performer Jason Holiday (the only person ever on screen), it was shot entirely in a New York City apartment over 12 hours on December 3, 1966. When it was released the following year, legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman called it “the most extraordinary film I’ve seen in my life.”  

For decades, the film was thought to have been lost until an original print surfaced in an archive in Wisconsin in 2013.  The print was intensively restored thanks to a mass fundraising campaign (donors included actor Steve Buscemi and our very own TIFF Cinematheque), which is why we're lucky enough to be screening it at Queer Cinema Club. 

The event's gorgeous dual poster, both literal portraits of Jason Holliday - which will be available for sale at the screening - were created by artist Matthew Le Soleil.