How to Draw a Bunny

How to Draw a Bunny
Directed by John W. Walter[1]
Produced by Steve Apicella
Frances Beatty
Rocky Collins
Kevin Foxe
Lianne Halfon
John Malkovich
Andrew L. Moore
Russell Smith
Starring Joseph Ialacci
Richard Feigen
Music by Max Roach
Cinematography Frank G. DeMarco
Andrew L. Moore
Edited by John W. Walter
Production
company
Distributed by Artisan Entertainment
Release dates
2002
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Box office $4,148[2]

How to Draw a Bunny: A Ray Johnson Portrait, is a collage-style feature-length documentary about the Detroit-born pop and performance artist Ray Johnson. 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.[3] After Johnson’s suicide, Moore and Walter conducted interviews with artists including Christo, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Judith Malina, and James Rosenquist.[4] In addition, they gathered photographs, works of art, and home movies, which were edited into a fast-paced narrative exploring the artist’s life. The filmmakers “couldn’t 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.[5] The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. 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.”[6]

References

  1. How to Draw a Bunny at the Internet Movie Database
  2. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/2004/0HTDB.php
  3. Kimmelman, Michael (October 6, 2002). "A Collage in Which Life=Death=Art". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  4. "How to Draw a Bunny". IMDb. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. Klawans, Stuart (October 28, 2002). "License to Kill". The Nation. The Nation. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  6. "How to Draw a Bunny". The Estate of Ray Johnson. Retrieved 31 August 2015.

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