Shirley Clarke Film Untitled
Director and Producer Immy Humes
Independent film pioneer Shirley Clarke helped spark a revolution. One of the only women in the all-male club of 1960s experimental filmmakers, she told stories Hollywood wouldn’t. Radical stories. Black stories. Queer stories. And then she herself was cut from the picture. A timely tale of cool, identity, and struggle. With jazz.
Immy Humes
Director, Producer
Immy Humes is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker who explores social and political issues through the prism of real stories about unconventional and complicated people. A lifelong New Yorker, she is currently working on a film about the radical filmmaker Shirley Clarke. Clarke was often described as “the only woman” in the New American Cinema, the generation of filmmakers who invented independent film in the early 1960s. Inspired by Clarke, Immy wrote a book entitled “The Only Woman” (2022, Phaidon) that presents 100 archival photos of groups of men with only one woman. Her feature Doc, (theatrical and PBS release, 2008) was about her late father, HL “Doc” Humes, novelist, co-founder of the Paris Review, and mentally-ill visionary.