Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts
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This illuminating documentary 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 Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, both memories from plantation days and scenes of a radically changing urban culture.
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- Russell G. Jones
- Jason Samuels Smith
- Sharon Washington
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Metacritic
Apr 16, 2021
Chasing Ghosts has a great idea in showcasing as much of Traylor’s work as possible, and next to the creations of other Black artists, but its talking head presentation is fairly didactic.
Nick Allen
RogerEbert.com
Apr 15, 2021
This documentary, directed by Jeffrey Wolf, is a plain, sincere, nourishing account of the artist.
Glenn Kenny
The New York Times
Apr 13, 2021
The soulful, vibrant, expressive art is almost documentary in nature, like great cave paintings put on cardboard.
Roger Moore
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