What Interior. Leather Bar. did for Cruising, Jason and Shirley did for Oscar-winner Shirley Clarke’s 1967 film Portrait of Jason — a controversial, confessional-style documentary about nightclub performer Jason Holliday, which was infamously shot in one grueling 12-hour session at the Chelsea Hotel. Critics have long been divided over the film: Did Shirley bait Jason into unraveling on camera or was the result Jason’s plan all along? In 2015, director Stephen Winter (Chocolate Babies, Frameline21) confronted this question head on.

Winter’s cinematic response to Clarke presents a fictitious account of the making of her film, one that challenges the idea of who gets to take ownership of a person’s story. Mixing fantasy and reality with enthralling performances from Jack Waters and Sarah Schulman in the title roles, Jason & Shirley Revisited — now recut and remastered by Winter for its 10th anniversary — explores the intersection of art and exploitation, race and privilege, and gender and power.