Larry Clark

CTL-E-6288 · Person · other · 1948–present; L.A. Rebellion era to present

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Combined Graph record U-07475 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6288.

Larry Clark is an American filmmaker of the L.A. Rebellion, the Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers — not Lawrence Donald Clark, the Tulsa-born photographer who directed Kids. Born in Ohio and raised in Cleveland, he took a bachelor's degree at Miami University, where he was president of the Black Student Union, then drove to Los Angeles to enrol at UCLA. Sources conflict on his MFA year: the UCLA Film & Television Archive lists 1977, while UCLA Newsroom lists 1981, and this packet does not blend them. His first feature, Passing Through (1977), made as his UCLA master's thesis film, follows jazz musician Eddie Warmack, released from prison, refusing the mob-controlled music business and seeking his mentor Poppa Harris; the Archive credits Clark as director, producer, writer and editor, and he co-wrote the screenplay with Ted Lange. The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno International Film Festival and entered the National Film Registry in 2023. Earlier he directed As Above, So Below (1973); his second feature was Cutting Horse (2002). He later taught film at San Francisco State University.

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (The Closer — 747 Program, Wave 13 final packet; a gap-closing packet built from the earlier packets' documented blocked edges). Gate A (2026-10-16): CLEAR — hand-checked against the live graph (3,910 entities): no Larry Clark entity homed under either identity. DISAMBIGUATION carried on the record's face: this is the L.A. Rebellion filmmaker, NOT Lawrence Donald Clark (b. January 19, 1943, Tulsa), the photographer of Tulsa (1971) who directed Kids (1995); the near-identical birth day/month is a standing conflation risk and the two men must never be merged. ID CTL-E-6288 free at staging. Subtype note: Person/other per the graph's filmmaker precedent (John Singleton, CTL-E-6193); "Filmmaker" is not a legal Person subtype in schema.json. Supply: 747 blocked-edge harvest — Scan Tail Wave 5 documented the Passing Through (CTL-E-6171) authored_by edge as blocked on this missing endpoint. SCOPE GATE: national-canon gap-fix endpoint harvested from a documented blocked edge in a merged packet; staged to close that edge, per the Closer brief. Vital status: LIVING — most recent dated evidence opened: the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque's September 2026 schedule billed a Larry Clark Retrospective for Saturday 19 September 2026 with Clark in person and a live Q&A. Stated plainly: that billing is a pre-event announcement, not a post-event confirmation; the strongest confirmed-activity evidence is the 2 February 2024 Clinton Street Theater screening mounted with Clark's approval and a slideshow he provided, preceded by his first-person BFI interview of 12 July 2023 and the Library of Congress's December 2023 "Special Thanks to Larry Clark." No opened source dated after September 2026 was found; a post-event 2026 confirmation is an enrichment-era upgrade, not asserted here. STATISTICS (counted, sourced, dated 2026-10-16): Birth date January 19, 1948 — stated in the opened encyclopedic entry, whose own citations are The Guardian's Weekend Birthdays (2014) and an archived San Francisco State page; FLAGGED: no second opened authoritative source gives the full date. Birthplace specificity differs by source, shown not blended: Cleveland, Ohio (BFI; Wikipedia; Cleveland Cinematheque) vs. Ohio only (UCLA Film & Television Archive). CONFLICT — UCLA MFA year: 1977 (UCLA Film & Television Archive) vs. 1981 (UCLA Newsroom); both are UCLA sources and neither is suppressed. UCLA Archive filmography counted: 5 entries, 1970–2002. CONFLICT — Passing Through runtime: 111 min (CCCB) vs. 104 min (Clinton Street Theater); not blended. Passing Through: Special Jury Prize, Locarno (UCLA FTA; CCCB; Clinton Street Theater); National Film Registry induction 2023 (Library of Congress). Teaching: professor of film, Cinema Department, San Francisco State University — tense differs by source ("is" in CCCB/Wikipedia, "was previously" in the current UCLA Archive wording); shown as-is. MEDIA: map N/A (person); photo HELD with named candidate; chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-6288-larry-clark.svg); video HELD (no matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map); audio HELD. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created chart (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced statistics and timeline fact) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map (shorts-link-map-2026-10-15.json, 233 rows, checked by nam) | audio = HELD (HELD: No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging.)

Referenced by

• Passing Through — authored by → this record
• University of California, Los Angeles — has alumnus → this record

Sources

• UCLA Film & Television Archive, Larry Clark (L.A. Rebellion filmmakers) (accessed 2026-10-16) — birthplace Ohio; education 'UCLA, M.F.A. 1977' (one side of the MFA-year conflict); Passing Through (1977) as first feature, Locarno Special Jury Prize; Cutting Horse (2002); Oscar Micheaux Award for Cinematography; the full 5-entry filmography; headshot image (photo candidate) — https://cinema.ucla.edu/collections/la-rebellion/filmmakers/larry-clark/ (primary source · build store)
• CCCB, Larry Clark (participant biography, sourced to UCLA Film & Television Archive) (accessed 2026-10-16) — born in Ohio; Miami University Black Student Union presidency; UCLA enrolment; Passing Through co-written by Ted Lange, Locarno Special Jury Prize; Cutting Horse (2002); professor of film at San Francisco State University — https://www.cccb.org/en/w/participants/larry-clark (build store)
• CCCB, L.A. Rebellion: Passing Through, by Larry Clark (accessed 2026-10-16) — Passing Through as Clark's first feature film; Locarno Special Jury Prize; running time stated as 111 min (one side of the runtime conflict) — https://www.cccb.org/en/w/activities/la-rebellion-passing-through-by-larry-clark (build store)
• Library of Congress newsroom, 25 Films Selected for Preservation in National Film Registry (PR 23-101, 2023-12-13) (accessed 2026-10-16) — Passing Through (1977) among the 25 films selected for the 2023 National Film Registry; Clark identified as a key L.A. Rebellion figure and director; a 2023 BFI interview quotation from Clark plus 'Special Thanks to Larry Clark' — https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/25-films-selected-for-preservation-in-national-film-registry/s/aa4bef48-95f6-486f-882d-110613633b1e (build store)
• Library of Congress, Complete National Film Registry Listing (accessed 2026-10-16) — Passing Through — year of release 1977, year inducted 2023 — https://www.loc.gov/programs/national-film-preservation-board/film-registry/complete-national-film-registry-listing/ (build store)
• British Film Institute, A neglected jazz movie classic: Larry Clark looks back on Passing Through (2023-07-12) (accessed 2026-10-16) — born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio; UCLA film school graduate; L.A. Rebellion membership; As Above, So Below (1973); Passing Through as his debut feature; first-person interview with Clark in 2023 — https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/larry-clark-passing-through-la-rebellion-movement (build store)
• UCLA Newsroom, Rise Again: The L.A. Rebellion (accessed 2026-10-16) — the conflicting MFA figure 'Larry Clark M.F.A. '81 (Passing Through)'; Clark's own recollections of the L.A. Rebellion — https://newsroom.ucla.edu/magazine/la-rebellion-charles-burnett-jamaa-fanaka (build store)
• Archival Spaces (Jan-Christopher Horak), Larry Clark's Passing Through (accessed 2026-10-16) — Passing Through called Clark's thesis film; screened at UCLA on 13 February 2020 with Larry Clark in attendance — https://archivalspaces.com/2021/12/04/larry-clarks-passing-through/ (build store)
• Clinton Street Theater, Passing Through (event of 2 February 2024) (accessed 2026-10-16) — 'Written, produced, directed and edited by Larry Clark'; Locarno special jury prize; runtime stated as 104 min (other side of the runtime conflict); the 2024 screening held thanks to the approval of Larry Clark, who also provided a slideshow — https://cstpdx.com/event/passing-through/ (build store)
• Wikipedia, Larry Clark (filmmaker, born 1948) (accessed 2026-10-16) — born 19 January 1948 (its cited sources are The Guardian's Weekend Birthdays and an archived SFSU page — FLAGGED single-line sourcing); native of Cleveland, Ohio; bachelor's degree at Miami University; Passing Through as his master's thesis film at UCLA; professor in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Clark_(filmmaker,_born_1948) (build store)
• Wikipedia, Larry Clark (the photographer) — DISAMBIGUATION ONLY (accessed 2026-10-16) — Lawrence Donald Clark, born 19 January 1943, Tulsa, Oklahoma; photography book Tulsa (1971); director of Kids (1995). None of these facts belongs to CTL-E-6288; cited only to fix the disambiguation — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Clark (build store)
• Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, weekly email webview (September 2026 schedule) (accessed 2026-10-16) — 'Larry Clark is a filmmaker, artist, and educator from Cleveland, Ohio'; a Larry Clark Retrospective billed for Saturday 19 September 2026 with Clark in person and a live Q&A (pre-event billing — see vital-status note) — https://t.e2ma.net/message/vlcrxk/v9eh6t (build store)

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