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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 satire. A parallel visual line in the film moves through Traylor’s life and land, with archival...

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 biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Ci...

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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 of the most important American artists of the 20th century, whose life traversed slavery, Reconstruc...

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 from Kingston on the shore of Lake Wakatipu. Initially she was presumed drown but quickly police an...