Maripol

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has surrounded herself with French artists for many years. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Queen of Pop's career, this film revisits the close and unique bond between Madonna and France and features testimonials from close collaborators and French friends who have helped create her unique artistic universe: Maripol, Jean Paul Gaultier, Julien d'Ys, Nicolas Huchard, and Marion Motin. Today's artists such as Florence Foresti, Leïla Slimani, Victor Weinsanto and HollySiz talk about the influence of this emancipating figure, which extends far beyond music.

Esta película es ante todo un viaje. De Brooklyn a Abidjan, pasando por Mississippi, Puerto Rico y Haití. Un viaje sobre la búsqueda de la identidad del artista afroamericano contemporáneo más famoso y uno de los pintores más relevantes del siglo XX, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Sin embargo deviene un viaje paradójico, pues a pesar de sus raíces haitianas y puertorriqueñas, Basquiat apenas exploró el continente africano. Sin embargo, nunca dejó de soñar con ello, trascendiendo su “memoria cultural” para producir obras icónicas. Se dice demasiado poco: aunque el pintor se anticipó como ningún otro a la globalización del arte, sobre todo se enfrentó a una América plagada de racismo.

Esta película es ante todo un viaje. De Brooklyn a Abidjan, pasando por Mississippi, Puerto Rico y Haití. Un viaje sobre la búsqueda de la identidad del artista afroamericano contemporáneo más famoso y uno de los pintores más relevantes del siglo XX, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Sin embargo deviene un viaje paradójico, pues a pesar de sus raíces haitianas y puertorriqueñas, Basquiat apenas exploró el continente africano. Sin embargo, nunca dejó de soñar con ello, trascendiendo su “memoria cultural” para producir obras icónicas. Se dice demasiado poco: aunque el pintor se anticipó como ningún otro a la globalización del arte, sobre todo se enfrentó a una América plagada de racismo.

This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be interviewed for a TV documentary. With striking candour, Basquiat's art dealers - including Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone and Bruno Bischofberger - as well as his most intimate friends, lovers and fellow artists, expose the cash, the drugs and the pernicious racism which Basquiat confronted on a daily basis. As historical tableaux, visual diaries of defiance or surfaces covered with hidden meanings, Basquiat's art remains the beating heart of this story.

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.

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.

A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.

Face Addict tells the story of a unique and unrepeatable experience, that of the artistic community in New York between the late '70s and early '80s, known as the downtown scene.

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

Keith Haring: The Message was released in conjunction with the Keith Haring retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Directed by famed designer, Madonna stylist and Haring confidante Maripol, The Message goes pretty deep into both the artist and the city and times he’ll forever be identified with: New York City, circa the 1980s. The focus, as the title indicates, is upon the “struggles that animated” Keith Haring’s work, his activism – in a word, his “message.”