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How to Draw a Bunny
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Wikipedia article
'How to Draw a Bunny: A Ray Johnson Portrait', is a 2002 American documentary film about the Detroit-born pop, collage and performance artist Ray Johnson.[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/arts/design/art-documentaries-streaming-virus.html 15 Documentaries That Inside an Artist's Head - The New York Times]
Summary
Filmmakers John Walter and Andrew L. Moore delve into the mysterious life and death of Johnson, an artist whose world was made up of amazing coincidences, serendipities and karmic gags, according to Michael Kimmelman of 'The New York Times'. After Johnson's suicide, Moore and Walter conducted interviews with artists including Christo, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Judith Malina, and James Rosenquist. In addition, they gathered photographs, works of art, and home movies, which were edited into a fast-paced narrative exploring the artist's life.[https://variety.com/2002/film/awards/how-to-draw-a-bunny-1117916955/ Variety][https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/how-to-draw-a-bunny/Film?oid=1053674 Chicago Reader][https://magazine.artland.com/captivating-artist-documentaries-to-enjoy-at-home/ The Storytellers Stories: The Best Documentaries About Artists|Artland Magazine]
Reception
The filmmakers couldnt have chosen a more elusive subject for a movie; their success in evoking Johnson, and in documenting his world, is a triumph of sympathy over psychology, memory over historicism, wrote Stuart Klawans for 'The Nation'.
It has a score of 78 on Metacritic.[https://www.metacritic.com/movie/how-to-draw-a-bunny Metacritic]
Accolades
The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.[https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film149975.html FilmAffinity] The film also won the Grand Prix du Public 2002 at the Rencontres Internationales de Cinema in Paris and was nominated for a 2003 Independent Spirit Award and listed in 'New York Magazine's Top Ten of 2004.
References
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