Strand: Under The Dark Cloth
Documentary
81 mins, 1989
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A personal look at the master photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand who inspired Walker. Their meetings in the late seventies lead to the film looking back at Strand’s lifework, returning to the locations of his art in New Mexico, Scotland, France and Italy.
The film includes interviews with Strand’s wives, Hazel Kingsbury and Virigina Stevens, and colleagues and friends Leo Hurwitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Cesare Zavattini, Fred Zinneman and others. 81min (Theatrical release, BBC broadcast)
Awards/Nominations
- Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television – Genie Award – Best Feature Documentary
- Nyon International Documentary Festival – Public Jury Award
- Festival International Du Film Sur L’Art – Best Biography
Credits
- Director: John Walker
- Writers: Seaton Findlay, John Walker
- Cinematographer: John Walker, csc
- Editors: Cathy Gulkin, John Kramer, Geoff Bowie
- Sound: Aerlyn Weissman and Jean-Pierre Delmore, and David Springbett and Bob Withey
- Music: Jean Derome
- Narrator: John Walker
- Producer: John Walker
- Production Company: John Walker Productions Ltd.
Clip 1
53 sec | Paul Strand as he discusses the importance of his portraiture.
Clip 2
62 sec | Director John Walker talks about Paul Strand’s marriage to his first wife Rebecca Salsbury Strand.
Clip 3
61 sec | Clips from Paul Strand’s Mexican film by director Fred Zinnermann and discussion of how he challenged the social order of the time.
Clip 4
62 sec | Strand’s co-director Leo Hurwitz talks about the film ‘Native Land’ and its challenge to American racism and the KKK.
Clip 5
55 sec | Italian screenwriter, Cesare Zavattini talks about Paul Strand and how his work changed how he saw his own people.
