How to Draw a Bunny

How to Draw a Bunny: A Ray Johnson Portrait, is a feature-length documentary about the Detroit-born pop and performance artist Ray Johnson. 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.[4] In addition, they gathered photographs, works of art, and home movies, which were edited into a fast-paced narrative exploring the artist's life. 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.[5] The film premiered at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize. The film also won the Grand Prix du Public 2002 at the Rencontres Internationales de Cinema in Paris and was nominated for a 2003 Independent Spirit Award and listed in New York Magazine’s “Top Ten of 2004.”[6]

How to Draw a Bunny
Directed by	John W. Walter[1]
Produced by	Steve Apicella Frances Beatty Rocky Collins Kevin Foxe Lianne Halfon John Malkovich Andrew L. Moore Russell Smith
Starring	Joseph Ialacci Richard Feigen
Music by	Max Roach
Cinematography	Frank G. DeMarco Andrew L. Moore
Edited by	John W. Walter
Production company	Palm Pictures Mr. Mudd Productions
Distributed by	Artisan Entertainment
Release date	2002
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$4,148[2]