Les Blank

Les Blank is an award-winning independent filmmaker best known for a series of poetic films that led Time Magazine film critic Jay Cocks to write “I can’t believe that anyone interested in movies or America…could watch Blank’s work without feeling they’d been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation.” Born in 1935 in Tampa, Florida, Blank attended Tulane University in New Orleans. After two years of film school at the University of Southern California, he made his first film about …