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Passing Through by Larry Clark

Wed Jun 03, 2026
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Very close still of a man playing a saxophone with his eyes squeezed shut, surrounded by red light.
Larry Clark, Passing Through, 1977. Image courtesy the artist.

Tickets & Info

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When Wed Jun 03, 2026
Where Walker Cinema
Price $15; $12 Walker members, seniors, and students
Part of: Films of the LA Rebellion
Black and white still of a kid in a striped shirt wearing an oversized mask of a cartoony dog head. The kid holds their hands up to their mouth.

Part of: Films of the LA Rebellion

After saxophonist Eddie Warmack is released from prison, he seeks the guidance of his grandfather and musical mentor “Poppa” Harris. Both contend with the subjugation of African American music and musicians within a white-controlled industry. With montages of concert footage, archival material, and pure abstraction, Passing Through fuses cinematic form with the kinetic, improvisational, and radical possibilities of jazz, showcased in performances by Eric Dolphy, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Sun Ra. Director Larry Clark posits the jazz form as a language for Black liberation from Africa to North America. 1977, US, 16mm, 105 min.

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Bio

Larry Clark is a filmmaker, painter, and former professor at San Francisco State University. Born in Ohio, Clark relocated to California where he earned his MFA from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television in 1977. Through his filmmaking and painting, Clark has centered Black music as an aesthetic form capable of radical transformation and as a mode of political critique. Celebrated as “the only jazz film in the history of cinema,” his acclaimed feature film Passing Through (1977) was screened internationally in Switzerland, Edinburgh, Perth, and Moscow. His other film releases include As Above, So Below (1973) and Cutting Horse (2002).

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Dates & Tickets

    Mon Jun 01 — Sun Jun 07, 2026
  • Wed Jun 03, 2026