The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
An aspiring DJ, from the South Bronx, and his best friend, a promoter, try to get into show business by exposing people to hip-hop music and culture.
Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on five continents, the documentary tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe.
A year in the life of troubled Australian graffiti artist Justin Hughes.
UNLIKE U melts into a scene, which for outsiders, is hard to comprehend. The world of trainwriters, those spray paint artists who specialize in painting trams and underground trains. Extremely undercover. Extremely criminal. Extremely forbidden. UNLIKE U portrais four generations of sprayers in Berlin, of which the oldest of the hardcore artists is already over 40 years old, while the youngest are around 17. All protagonists have one thing in common. Each one has sprayed countless trains in their lives, some of them even over a 1000.
Paris 1983: They are between 14 and 18 and write their names on the walls of the city. Inspired by the New York phenomenon, they do not simply reproduce the forms. They create their own style, their required letters and inspire an entire generation. They communicate through letters of their name. They are called Writers.
Adrift in the lush, nocturnal urban landscape of THE GRAFFITI ARTIST, Nick (Ruben Bansie-Snellman) is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. For this iconoclastic young visionary, the vast wall surfaces of deserted alleys and train yards are at once a daunting symbol of capitalist oppression and a texturally rich, seamless tableau ripe for exploitation to amplify his artistic dialectic of anger and rebellion.
Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same insatiable addiction. With the other members of his ‘crew,’ Anthony parties, shoplifts spray-paint and 'tags' virgin walls with his signature 'Blest.' He does his best to avoid run-ins with the cops and hostile rival crews, but he can’t avoid the pressure from his mother to attend college, and from his girlfriend to leave New York with her. As tensions rise, a physical threat from the cops causes the crew to intensify their bombing excursions, calling an all out war on the city. When the inevitable confrontation happens, a tragedy results that pushes Anthony to make a decision that has even darker consequences.
ストリート・アートについてのドキュメンタリーを制作し始めたロサンゼルス在住のフランス人映像作家ティエリー・グエッタ。ティエリーは覆面アーティスト、バンクシーの存在にたどり着き、取材を始めるが、ティエリーに映像の才能がないことに気付いたバンクシーは、逆にティエリーのドキュメンタリーを自分が監督し始める。
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Jimmy begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.
This is the story of a little robot known as Pinocchio 3000 whose greatest wish is to become a real boy. The year is 3000. Geppetto, with the help of his faithful assistant, Spencer the cyber penguin, and by the holographic fairy Cyberina, creates Pinocchio, a prototype superrobot equipped for emotions. But before he can be given a heart and become a real boy, Cyberina insists that Pinocchio learn the difference between right and wrong.
90年代のアメリカ。社会からはみ出し、ストリートで退屈を持て余していた若者たちが、ニューヨークの一角に手作りの小さなギャラリーをオープンした。彼らが生み出す型にはまらないアートはやがて世界から注目されるようになり、ギャラリーはストリート・カルチャーの聖地となる。ハーモニー・コリン、マイク・ミルズ、トーマス・キャンベルら多くの才能を生んだムーブメントの軌跡をたどり、その魅力に迫ったドキュメンタリー。
70～80年代初頭のニューヨークで社会現象化していたスプレー・アート“グラフィティ”に焦点を当てたドキュメンタリー。ブレイクダンス・シーンやヒップホップまでを網羅しつつ、地下鉄アートを巡る論争の真意を映し出す。
Forced to give up his dreams of art school, Zach works dead-end jobs to support his sister and her son. Questioning his life, he paints, surfs and hangs out with his best friend, Gabe. When Gabe's older brother returns home for the summer, Zach suddenly finds himself drawn into a relationship he didn't expect.
Day and night, wholecar or end-2-end -- get involved when Berlins craziest aerosol junkies visit their iron favorites, and the camera won't leave their side.
Pure Hate is an explosive mixture of Berlin’s graffiti scene and shows 70 minutes of the hardest stuff writers from the capital of Germany have to offer. This masterpiece of underground graffiti videos sets new standards and will kick your ass!
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...
Rash is a contemporary story of Melbourne Australia and the artists who make it a living host for illegal artwork called street art.
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.
Celebrated graffiti artists 'Heir' and 'Vain' are superstars in the underground world of San Francisco's Mission District; urban outlaws always on the run. After a clash with the law, they find their lives spinning out-of-control with explosive consequences.
NY。マルコムとソフィアは街のあちこちにグラフィティ・アートを描く若きアーティストのコンビ。自分たちの作品を汚すライバル・グループがニューヨーク・メッツのファンであることから、メッツの本拠地シティ・フィールド球場の名物であるホームラン・アップルに落書きをしてやろうと画策する。球場で警備員をするマルコムの友人に500ドルを払えば実行できるということになり、二人はそのお金を稼ぐために一計を案じるも、トラブルに巻き込まれていく。
