NEXT: A PRIMER IN URBAN PAINTING
MONDAY 2 OCTOBER AT 8:45PM
Country Canada/France Running Time 95 mins Format DigiBeta Director/Producer Pablo Aravena DoP John Barrett Ashmore Print Source Pablo Aravena Productions
E Pablo@nextthemovie.com W www.nextthemovie.com
Playing with Rackgaki 28 mins
A journey through the world of graffiti, from NY to Paris, Tokyo and another eight or so cities and back to where it all started. A form of calligraphy, writings on the walls, an ephemeral art, free flowing political messages, tags, submersion and underground cultures, the rise of graffiti’s standing, 70s to 90s and the new century, from low to high-art and back, commercialism and selling out, confined to the gallery and back on the streets, a universal art form, are some of the themes successfully encapsulated by director Pablo Aravena’s camera.
The most enthralling bits take us to the original NY scene, how it all started and what evolved, or revolve around the forthright underground acts of graffiti agitprop in Paris and São Paulo. The pixação, a supposedly lesser Paulista mode of graffiti, employed by São Paulo’s underprivileged, is set against, and eventually reconciled with, its high-heeled sibling, the swift, minimal writing on the walls of Brazil’s emblems of power and affluence. In Paris, the buzz of literally going underground to the city’s sewer system for a quick graph in the midst of past scribbles lives alongside the desire to conceptualise the other end of the graffiti process as high art. In between, a viral art form bandaging Sotheby’s with spontaneous gatherings, performance and the shells of abandoned cars. MF
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