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In Search of Avery Willard
- Director: Cary Kehayan
- Producer: Amanda Hammett; Lucas Joaquin
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An interesting slice of gay, social history...
Avery Willard - a forgotten artist...and, by all accounts, a rather unpleasant man.
Perhaps, a little civility ensures longevity.
Watch...
In Search of Avery Willard from Cary Kehayan on Vimeo.
The(ir) Blurb...
Broadway photographer, physique artist, gay activist, experimental filmmaker, drag historian, leatherman, pornographer: New York City artist Avery Willard produced a lifetime of historically significant work that has remained widely unseen for decades. Through rare interviews with collaborators, friends and preeminent cinema historians, filmmaker Cary Kehayan traces Willard's provocative career from the 1940s through the 1990s. Featuring newly restored, never-before-seen archival films and photographs, this revealing documentary tells the story of a lost trailblazer of the queer art movement - a man who was as ambitious as he was self-sabotaging.
Cast & Characters
Henry Arango;
James Bidgood;
John Cox;
Jeffrey Escoffier;
Joe E. Jeffreys;
Agosto Machado