How to Draw a Bunny
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- Steve Apicella
- Frances Beatty
- Rocky Collins
- Kevin Foxe
- Lianne Halfon
- John Malkovich
- Andrew L. Moore
- Russell Smith
- Joseph Ialacci
- Richard Feigen
- Frank G. DeMarco
- Andrew L. Moore
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| Directed by | John W. Walter |
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| Edited by | John W. Walter |
| Music by | Max Roach |
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| Distributed by | Artisan Entertainment |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $4,148[1] |
How to Draw a Bunny: A Ray Johnson Portrait, is a 2002 American documentary film about the Detroit-born pop, collage and performance artist Ray Johnson.[2]
Filmmakers John Walter and Andrew L. Moore delve into the mysterious life and death of Johnson, an artist whose “world was made up of amazing coincidences, serendipities and karmic gags,” according to Michael Kimmelman of The New York Times.[3] After Johnson's suicide, Moore and Walter conducted interviews with artists including Christo, Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein, Judith Malina, and James Rosenquist. In addition, they gathered photographs, works of art, and home movies, which were edited into a fast-paced narrative exploring the artist's life.[4][5][6]
Reception
The filmmakers “couldn’t have chosen a more elusive subject for a movie; their success in evoking Johnson, and in documenting his world, is a triumph of sympathy over psychology, memory over historicism,” wrote Stuart Klawans for The Nation.[7]
The film has a score of 78 on Metacritic.[8]