The Little-Known Story of Bill Traylor, One of America's Most Important Artists of the 20th Century.So it is with the remarkable story told in the new film Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts.” - LA Weekly “Sometimes the circumstances of an artist’s life are as inseparable from their vision as the dancer from the dance.Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts is an Essential Artist Documentary.Whimsy and Memory on Cardboard: Bill Traylor Documentary Assembles the Fragments of an Extraordinary Life.
New Documentary Showcases Bill Traylor’s Bracing Visions of the Past and the Present.“Drawing heavily on works from various fields - from Zora Neale Hurston’s writing to music and theater - Wolf succeeds in finding a wealth of meaning in Traylor’s deceptively simple pictures.” - The Hollywood Reporter.Jeffrey Wolf Celebrates the Work of Bill Traylor, Who Survived Slavery to Become an Artist in His Mid-80s.“If every picture tells a story, the body of work displayed in the hauntingly intriguing documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts speaks volumes on the life and times of the artist in question.” - Los Angeles Times.Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts Brings to Life a Man Who Made His Mark Across Time.The new film Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts introduces to a wider audience one of the most important American artists of the 20th century.‘He’s Telling a Story of His Time’: How Bill Traylor, Born Into Slavery, Became an Art Titan.“.a spry and inventive account of extraordinary transcendence….Traylor was both an artist and a historian, and Chasing Ghosts is appropriately both a work of art and history-a beautiful film with a sense of swing and soul.” -Slant.Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts Is an Exhilarating Tribute to an Outsider Artist.“Jeffrey Wolf’s exceptional documentary Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts seeks to tells its subject’s story in a deeply personal way, while also pulling back when needed to contextualize his work.” - San Francisco Chronicle.In Bill Traylor: Chasing Ghosts, Ex-Slave Becomes Art Giant.Wolf makes excellent use of photo and film archives.remains powerful medicine today.” - New York Times (Critic's Pick) “.sincere, nourishing account of the artist.