The read
It runs a compact 52m.
Synopsis
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.
Ratings
TMDB6/10
3 audience votes
Key crew
- Pierre-Paul PuljizDirector
- Pierre-Paul PuljizWriter
Cast
- Jean-Michel BasquiatSelf (Archive footage)
- James NoëlNarrator (voice)
- Dieter BuchhartSelf - Expository Comissioner
- Kevin BraySelf - Director
- Pablo CalogeroSelf - Musician
- Jean-Charles de CastelbajacSelf - Artist
- Al DiazSelf - Graphic artist
- Jeffrey DeitchSelf - Gallery director
- Alvin FieldsSelf - Singer composer
- Lizzie HimmelSelf - Photographer
- Michael HolmanSelf - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
- Eric Justin JohnsonSelf - Director
Stills
Themes
new york cityartists' lifebiographyhistorical figureracismpainter as artistportrait of an artistblack artsenvironmental racismfamous painter