Edinburgh International Film Festival

Portrait of Jason, a film by Shirley Clark and starring Jason Holiday is an artistic film interview of a human being with an interesting story to tell. The film is basically a single camera placed in front of the subject, and turned on. He is allowed to tell his story in his own terms at his own speed, while drinking and smoking. As he gets more and more intoxicated, he becomes more and more real.
This film is very badly made. Each scene blurs in and out of focus as a transition, and the blurring can last as long as three minutes. The subject is entirely lost, with only his voice letting us know the film is continuing. He tells his story so very slowly that most audience members were asleep by the middle of the movie. It was painful to sit through, and painful to write a review about. I give it one star.