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“I didn’t start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn’t know who Jean-Michel was, but I knew his work.”—Keith Haring19-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat stars as an artist in a once-lost film immortalizing NYC’s 1980s downtown scene. Over a day and a long dream-like night, Basquiat wanders the city, running into fellow street artists Lee Quiñones and Fab 5 Freddy, and catching musical performances by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, and Arto Lindsay with DNA. Legend has it that Debbie Harry, who played a fairy princess in the film, bought one of Basquiat’s paintings after the filming ended. US, 1981/2000, 35mm, 72 min.
35mm print from Metrograph Pictures
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