Waubonsee Community College

Bomb it, a Flying Cow production in association with Antidote Films, Inc. ; producers, Jeffrey Levy Hinte, Kate Christensen, Tracy Wares ; produced and directed by Jon Reiss

eng

videorecording

Bomb it

228417682

a Flying Cow production in association with Antidote Films, Inc. ; producers, Jeffrey Levy Hinte, Kate Christensen, Tracy Wares ; produced and directed by Jon Reiss

93

This film tells the story of graffiti from its cave-painting ancestors through its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70's and 80's as living museums appeared on trains rolling between the Bronx and Brooklyn. This film explores the many manifestations of "bombing," the global graffiti culture where the love of art and ego clashes explosively with law and order. From New York, Tokyo, Berlin, Barcelona, Cape Town, and Sao Paulo, each city boasts its own unique style and form of graffiti, and artists. Through grainy night vision footage and interviews, graffiti writers explain why they risk arrest and injury to express themselves, to reflect their society, and engage in a battle for control over the urban visual landscape. A study of the power of art to disturb, protest, and enlighten

Opening titles/Philadelphia -- New York -- Paris -- Amsterdam -- London -- Berlin -- Barcelona -- Capetown -- São Paulo -- Tokyo -- Los Angeles -- Public space/Commercialism

adult

live action

Street art is revolution