"I especially hope to inspire young women, because I often feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman." Filmed in San Francisco in 2000, Margaret Kilgallen (1967-2001) discusses the female figures she incorporated into many of her paintings and graffiti tags. Loosely based on women she discovered while listening to folk records, watching buck dance videos, or reading about the history of swimming, Kilgallen painted her heroines to inspire others and to change how society looks at women. Three of Kilgallen's heroines—Matokie Slaughter, Algia Mae Hinton, and Fanny Durack—are shown and heard through archival recordings. Kilgallen is shown tagging train cars with her husband, artist Barry McGee, in a Bay Area rail yard and painting in her studio at UC Berkeley (source: Art21).
From tagging to piecing, this controversial documentary chronicles some of L.A.'s hottest graffitti writers and crews. Shot from a graffitti writers perspective, the question of whether it's art or vandalism is left for you to decide. Segments were featured on NBC News/Today Show.
A biopic of the Melbourne street art scene from 30 years ago to now, from railways junctions at night to festivals, abandoned factories, rooftops drains and galleries. Interview with over 15 artists, as well as criminologists, anti-graffiti activists, politicians, architects & more, coupled with a soundtrack ft. Promoe, RJD2, Bias B, Portico Quartet, Vivaldi & many more. It's a story that's been here since the beginning of time. You've seen on the walls of your homes, the sides of your trains, as you drive through streets by rooftops, billboards and drains. It's the biggest art movement of our time. The streets have become a gallery since the cave painting is now collective.
Aki's Imagination is imbued through Tobu Himeo aka the Floating Girls. As a Japanese born Australian artist, Aki Yaguchi moulds her artwork around the interplay between her heritage and being a women within a male dominated space.
Über Freaks takes place deep in the heart of Berlin, and chronicles what it’s like to be part of a close knit group, who get their kicks by roping down buildings with the barest of safety precautions, climbing buildings by way of their exteriors, and lock-picking their way through the whole of the city and its Metro stations. The film can be considered a joyride for the viewer, as they are finally granted a backstage pass to the exclusive and hectic lifestyle of the Berlin Kidz, being privy to a whole world of adrenaline and thrill seeking that occurs just outside their apartment windows. This film was made by Good Guy Boris, from The Grifters, in addition to his book : Grifters Code
5AM gives you an insight look into the lives and minds of graffiti writers from LA, Arizona, NYC, Vancouver and Philly. This video contains live interviews, street and train bombing, mad hoes, drugs, fighting and more sexual contents along with party footage of the graffiti scene from the US and Canada. Featuring Leeto, Trigz, Grave, Srek, Bug, Jesus Saves, Gnes, Snak the Ripper, Ensoe, Hose, Koer, Bonks and Mensoe. Mad graffiti entertainment, Just 4 Fame!
The story of Melbourne's street art scene back in 2008. Starring the main characters of this artsy underworld, this short movie tries to understand the struggle of the artists, confronted to the illegality of their activity, but also to the growing demand of the public.
This one is dedicated to all writers. The long awaited and much anticipated Affiti Gray #1 is now available, feat. A solid variety of bombing, freights and walls along with a good amount of live painting actions. Containing new as well as classic footage, this video is pure graffiti – no filler content. Featuring tons and tons of quality fr8s from writers around the U.S., this video will surely please. Classic SF Graffiti. Throw ups, pieces, and tags from various writers. Live piecing on walls, live fr8 painting, live bombing and live transit painting and more. Check this one out, and enjoy the great music aswell!
Swiss graffiti crew KCBR drops a video to company their book release.
Spending the youth in the suburb of Copenhagen, these young guys started painting the clasic S - Trains at their early teenage years, to distance themselves from the mundane and trivial every day life. To Stand out from the crowd and do what they loved the most. To prevent their passion for graffiti from becoming monotonous and boring, they started visiting capitals in the neighbouring countries, like Stockholm Oslo, Berlin and London. On these short trips they met people who turned out to become good friends and partners in crime. Soon their common appetite for adventure took them to the outskirts of Europe and later the world. On these trips they experienced crazy actions, hard chases, parties, jails, ghettos, hospitals, countless nights in tunnels and bushes, even many fails but most importantly the sweet taste of victories together.
This documentary film gives us a close inside look into the biggest art movement the world has seen so far, and into an art form that is not really accepted as such and yet not understood by most of the people.
A film about the emergence of graffiti in and around Amsterdam. From the first principles from the punk period until the apotheosis at the Amsterdam metro to the world of contemporary design and art. Cast (only the ones with aliases and no known name) * AGAIN * ALIEN * ANGEL, member of the 'USA crew', appears in the book, not in the movie * DAZE * DE ZOOT * DELTA, member of the 'USA crew' * JAZ, member of the 'USA crew' * JEZIS, member of the 'USA crew' * JOKER, member of the 'USA crew' * QUIK * RHYME SHOE, member of the 'USA crew' * VENDEX * ZAP
The documentary shows avant-gardist tendencies in contemporary graffiti. Works, mostly workgroups, whose main feature is to go far removed or beyond overcome traditions of their genre in terms of aesthetics, content and ideals.
Released in 1999, this 50-minute video opens the trilogy. It focuses only on graffiti in the railway world. There are various activities such as the interior degradation of metro wagons (bomb marker and marker, window scratches), but also that of subway station. You can also see different scenes where the exteriors of metros, RER and trains SNCF are painted. Long passages are dedicated to the exhibition of his works when the trains roll. We can also see how graffiti artists get into train depots. The various crew (strips of graffiti) that can be seen in activities are 132, GAP, SDK and CLM.