Na zijn ontdekking wordt de jonge graffiti-kunstenaar Jean Michel Basquiat direct bestempeld als een van de grootste talenten van de New Yorkse kunst-scene. Hij treedt toe tot de kleine kring van vertrouwelingen rond Andy Warhol. Zijn schilderijen vinden grif aftrek bij belangrijke musea en kunstverzamelaars, en de media storten zich vol overgave op de eerste zwarte kunstenaar die succes heeft in de voornamelijk door blanken gedomineerde kunstwereld. Maar terwijl zijn ster blijft rijzen, buigt Basquiat steeds verder onder het juk van zijn eigen succes. Zijn leven krijgt een fatale wending als hij zijn uitvlucht zoekt in het gebruik van alcohol en drugs.

Agnès Varda ontmoette de fotograaf en schilder J.R. in 2015 en een samenwerking volgde in de vorm van een documentaire. Ze reizen door Frankrijk en ontmoeten er mensen van het platteland, ieder vanuit zijn eigen kunstbeleving.

Central London, today; Dee is an anarchic street-artist confronting the system, Marcus is an armed robber on a jewellery store crime-wave. For the two brothers, being Anti-Social is a way of life.

Venturing from Venice Beach to Watts, Varda looks at the murals of LA as backdrop to and mirror of the city’s many cultures. She casts a curious eye on graffiti and photorealism, roller disco & gang violence, evangelical Christians, Hare Krishnas, artists, angels and ordinary Angelenos.

Banksy is the world's most infamous street artist, whose political art, criminal stunts and daring invasions have outraged the establishment for over two decades. Featuring rare interviews with Banksy, this is the story of how an outlaw artist led a revolutionary new movement and built a multi-million dollar empire, while his identity remained shrouded in mystery.

A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.

A young homeless man happens to draw a series of illustrations over dusty surfaces, gradually recovering from the pains of his past.

Fantasy A, autistic Seattle rapper, suffers trials and tribulations from total creeps as he attempts to become a superstar. Along the way he also finds a mattress to sleep on, after being kicked out of his group home.

In 1988 overleed Jean-Michel Basquiat op 27-jarige leeftijd aan een overdosis. In de jaren daarvoor had de jonge, zwarte kunstenaar een duizelingwekkende carrière gemaakt in de New Yorkse kunstwereld met de steun van galeriehouders als Anina Nosei en Larry Gagosian.

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.

Reefa Hernandez Jr, an 18-year-old Colombian immigrant and talented artist spending his last summer in Miami with friends, family and his new girl Frankie before moving to New York City on an art scholarship.

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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.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the primitive in art is problematic?

First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu nation bringing American hip-hop culture to the UK for first time. The main focus is the graffiti art of Brim and the variety of reactions he is faced with from the British public and press.

Amanda and Manuel are friends, they hang out during the afternoons, flirt with each other and conceive the idea of turning one of Amanda’s drawings into a stencil to put it on a wall near their school. A romance blooms. When the date for the drawing arrives, Manuel is nowhere to be seen, and nobody knows what happened. Amanda can’t understand this situation.

NYC Graffiti Documentary "Kings Destroy" straight from the boogie down Bronx and right into your living room, with guest appearances by KRS-1, FAT JOE, CASE II, SEEN, and many more...

As the walls of Cuba's ageing infrastructure continue to crumble, a burgeoning street art scene is born in Havana. Murals of hand-painted masked character – Supermalo – with the tag “2+2=5?” have begun to appear in seemingly every corner of the heavily foot trafficked city.

'Time is Art' is uiteindelijk het verhaal van de zoektocht van een kunstenaar naar inspiratie in een door geld gedreven samenleving die creativiteit schuwt, en van de menselijke zoektocht naar betekenis in een ogenschijnlijk zinloze wereld.

From the streets of Bristol to the caverns of London and beyond, BanksyDoc finds the truths and explores the impact that the world’s most famous graffiti artist has had on the art world, on the expression of protest and satire, and on the perception of what you can do with a spray can and a stencil. Furthermore, this documentary explores the highly active art collector's world and how the celebrity factor shockingly influences value.