JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, ARTISTE ABSOLU
Directed by Pierre-Paul Puljiz
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.
Cast
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self (Archive footage)
James Noël
Narrator (voice)
Dieter Buchhart
Self - Expository Comissioner
Kevin Bray
Self - Director
Pablo Calogero
Self - Musician
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Self - Artist
Al Diaz
Self - Graphic artist
Jeffrey Deitch
Self - Gallery director
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Recommended for
- ✓people who enjoy learning through film
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- –those seeking nonstop action
- –those looking for narrative fiction
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