Posts Tagged ‘History’

Bay Area Graffiti: The Early Years | KQED Arts

Friday, May 9th, 2014

MAKE HISTORY – San Francisco, CA

Thursday, June 27th, 2013

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Photographer: Madeleine Tonzi

HISTORY – San Francisco, CA

Sunday, May 12th, 2013

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Photographer: Madeleine Tonzi

STYLE WARS Screening at Pacific Film Archive – Nov 3rd, 2012

Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Starts at 8:15 p.m (Buy Tickets)

Location:
2575 Bancroft Way
Between College and Telegraph

One of the first films to document the emerging hip-hop culture, Style Wars journeys into the New York subway system’s vast gallery of graffiti art to present a unique portrait of the artist as an angry young man, rebellious, street-smart and strangely eloquent. We meet the writers, as they are called—Skeme, Seen, Iz, Kase, Cap, Crazy Legs, Frosty Freeze, et al—who risk jail to “get their names up,” as well as peripheral figures from cops to former Mayor Koch who try to analyze the work they can’t comprehend. A lively parallel is drawn between break-dancers, rappers, and train-yard artists.

Produced by Henry Chalfant. Photographed by Burleigh Wartes. Edited by Victor Kanefsky and Sam Pollard. (69 mins, Color, DigiBeta from 16mm, From Public Art Films)