The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Rash is a contemporary story of Melbourne Australia and the artists who make it a living host for illegal artwork called street art.
Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti-writers. When a rival gang buffs their latest masterpiece, they must hatch a plan to get revenge by tagging an iconic NYC landmark, but they need to raise $500 to pull off their spectacular scheme. Over the course of two whirlwind, sun-soaked summer days, Malcolm and Sofia travel on an epic urban adventure involving black market spray cans, illicit bodegas, stolen sneakers, a high stakes heist, and a beautiful, stoned girl whose necklace is literally their key to becoming the biggest writers in the City.
Metagraffiti is a series of short films about graffiti - but from very surprising and different angles. The films comes from some of the most interesting and creative graffiti writers from Stockholm, Berlin and Copenhagen. They range from the cute to the provocating. Yesterday's graffiti writers are today's film producers and tomorrow's super stars.
City Of Paranoia is a film about London, a documentation of the activities of a bunch of men who dedicated a section of their lives to painting. The film tries to showcase what they have done whilst giving the viewer an insight to the emotions and feelings that come with this lifestyle...
Urbanbugs is a documentary from Turkey focuses on street art concepts such as Graffiti, Stencil, Wheatpasting. Besides their visual contribution to the urban life, these street arts became a sociological matter due to the their political messages. In this context, this documentary is trying to analyse the sociocultural reflections of street art concept in Turkey.
Kings And Toys is a documentary about graffiti, its culture and living with it. Featuring interviews with tons of writers from the U.K., the U.S and Europe, including graffiti legends like Goldie, Loomit, Seen, Futura 2000, Case 2 and Mode 2. The film originally went out on the U.K’s Channel 4 – in 1999.
"The Legend of Cool 'Disco' Dan" is the story of black Washington DC told from the perspective of Cool "Disco" Dan starting with his birth during the civil rights era and follows his life parallel with the rise of Go-Go music through the 1980s (which is the unheard but yet dominant urban music of DC) and also local DC politics with Marion Barry's rise and fall. Despite ending up homeless Cool "Disco" Dan used graffiti to escape the social problems D.C. had in the 1980s when things turned violent and became known as the Murder Capital of the United States. Cool "Disco" Dan ends up as a cult character of DC and his name becomes a symbol of survival during DC's most trying years.
Two young kids in love, one young graffiti artist and the other a foster-child, find trouble on the mean streets on the other side of the river in New York City. Officer Charles Banks finds young Danny tagging subway cars and then catches Teiresa selling drugs for another mislead teen, Kirk. The officer, instead of turning both of them in, gives both teens a chance to make more of their lives together. Changing their ways turns out to be more challenging than first thought.
Graffiti art documentary from 2009
From Brooklyn to the Bronx, Soho to Greenwich, Union Square to Wall Street... Join us and the friends, collaborators and gallery owners who supported Jean-Michel Basquiat throughout his life. The first ever recognized graffiti artist, who saw international success as a neo-expressionist painter in the 80s, Basquiat is a true contemporary hero who died at the peak of his career.
Loosely based on Charles Dicken’s book “A Tale of Two Cities”, Working Class tells the tale of underground street artists Mike Giant and Mike Maxwell and their decade long friendship that started with a tattoo. The story is told through the cities they call home by, cutting back and forth between the neighborhoods of San Francisco and San Diego, as the artists talk about their life philosophies and the work they create.
This documovie delves into the history of the NYC graffiti movement, tracing it thru 3 generations of well known writers. In depth conversations with ALI, BAMA, CRASH, KET, PART ONE, STAN 153yb, TERROR 161 and ZEPHYR classify this as sureshot cult classic
A film about the emergence of graffiti in and around Amsterdam. From the first principles from the punk period until the apotheosis at the Amsterdam metro to the world of contemporary design and art. Cast (only the ones with aliases and no known name)
* AGAIN
* ALIEN
* ANGEL, member of the 'USA crew', appears in the book, not in the movie
* DAZE
* DE ZOOT
* DELTA, member of the 'USA crew'
* JAZ, member of the 'USA crew'
* JEZIS, member of the 'USA crew'
* JOKER, member of the 'USA crew'
* QUIK
* RHYME SHOE, member of the 'USA crew'
* VENDEX
* ZAP
From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes a short film featuring original graffiti innovators Blade and Maze painting a mural in 80's New York.
From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes what was intended to be the first installment in a regular television series on New York's bludgeoning hip-hop culture, with a specific focus on graffiti. Funding fell through but the material was just to good be left to languish. Chalfant put together what he had and, like Style Wars, it continues to stand as a document of a culture in blossom.
Rune is 14 years old and lives in the suburbs; he is different from the other boys. One day after having a fight with his dad he leaves home to hang out at the docks and be by himself. But he is not the only one there; the slightly older Benjamin is also at the docks painting graffiti on an abandon factory. Intrigued and curious Rune goes over to say hi.
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, he will look for Calvin, another popular urban artist. Both will circulate through the streets without a fixed destination, spreading their art to every corner.
A graffiti art film by vandal, Katsu. The film sees Katsu reproduce his famous skull tag over and over again, growing in scale in powers of 10 from a grain of rice to the roof of a building.
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.
