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The documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts opens with a quotation from Vincent van Gogh, suggesting that people often live unaware of the artists among them. That could be said about Bill Traylor (around 1853-1949), who was born a slave and made pictures in his 80s on the sidewalks of Montgomery, Alabama. The film-maker Jeffrey Wolf explores Traylor’s personal and often playful iconography of animals, people and farm tools, in a blend of choreographed forms, earthy spirituality and ...

Film society streaming ‘Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts’ The Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater offers virtual cinema access to “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts.” SUBMITTED PHOTO April 14, 2021 Starting Friday April 16, the Rehoboth Beach Film Society’s Cinema Art Theater will offer virtual cinema access to “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts,” an illuminating documentary that explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biograp...

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Across discarded scraps of cardboard – candy-box tops, old window advertisements – swept memories from his plantation days and scenes of the rapidly shifting cityscape swirling about him. More than a thousand striking, minimalist artworks flowed from his hands in the three years between 1939 and 1942, a rich trove that remains the only significant body of drawings and paintings by a person enslaved at birth. The new film Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts introduces to a wider audience one ...

Chasing Ghosts: Calls coming in to police after $100K reward offered in Amber-Lee Cruickshank cold case 13 Apr, 2021 10:17 PM 4 minutes to read It has been 25 years since 2-year-old Amber-Lee Cruickshank disappeared from Kingston on the shore of Lake Wakatipu. Initially she was presumed drown but quickly police and her mother Nicola suspected something far more sinister happened to the little blonde girl. Video / Mike Scott It has been 25 years since 2-year-old Amber-Lee Cruickshank disappeared...

G. Allen Johnson April 13, 2021Updated: April 13, 2021, 6:36 pm The subject of the documentary “Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts,” about an Alabama farmer who was born into slavery and became a celebrated artist. Photo: Kino Lorber By the time Charles Shannon, a white artist in Montgomery, Ala., came across Bill Traylor, a homeless African American man scribbling away on pieces of cardboard as people passed by on the city’s celebrated Monroe Street, Traylor was in his 80s, having...

Chasing Ghosts: Police offer $100,000 reward, immunity for info in Amber-Lee Cruickshank disappearance 12 Apr, 2021 10:00 PM 7 minutes to read It has been 25 years since 2-year-old Amber-Lee Cruickshank disappeared from Kingston on the shore of Lake Wakatipu. Initially she was presumed drown but quickly police and her mother Nicola suspected something far more sinister happened to the little blonde girl. Video / Mike Scott It has been 25 years since 2-year-old Amber-Lee Cruickshank disappeared ...

FAIRFIELD — Enjoying the smell of freshly popped popcorn in the movie theater? There are more opportunities ahead. This week’s new films are: “Beate,” which is set in Italy and inspired by true stories of the employees of a lingerie factory who learn they are going to be fired. So

Vanished: The missing people of New Zealand 16 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 11 minutes to read Tim Wallis family have spent more than 10 years wondering what happened to him. Wallis — born Timothy Lees — was last seen by his family in Dunedin on August 6, 2010. Hed been in a bit of trouble with police and was doing community work. His brother saw him there that morning but Wallis skipped out on the afternoon work and was never seen again. In the years that followed, Wallis two siste...

A Moment In Crime Podcast: Tragedy in the hills - the mysterious death of polo star Lauren Biddle 19 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read Anna Leask is a senior reporter for the New Zealand Heraldanna.leask@nzherald.co.nz@AnnaLeask After a high profile trial in November this year, Christchurch engineer Joseph McGirr was acquitted by a jury of giving Ecstasy to a US polo player before she died in his spa bath. But he was found guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice by burying her ...