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Mardi Court: Up There
This is a 12 minutes mini-documentary exploring the meticulously painted, enormous ads on buildings around New York City. While most have transitioned to vinyl, Colossal Media Group prefers the good old fashion way: hand painting billboards and ads. http://vimeo.com/10562000
Sam’Art: George Condo
Last year, Condo created the artwork for Kanye West’s last album with the very controversial cover of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Even if his early work was influenced by Picasso and Miro, he managed through years to find his own signature. George Condo s’est fait connaitre par un public plus large à travers sa collaboration avec Kanye West pour son … Continue reading
DOWNTOWN 81
Downtown 81 portrays a day in the life of a young artist Jean (Basquiat) who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. Downtown 81 is also a slice of life from one of the most … Continue reading
Sam’Art: Kehinde Wiley
New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley considers himself as an urban portraitist. By using patterns defined by classical painters such like Titian or Ingres for his representation of black men, he questions the thin line between traditional and contemporary modes of representation. Wiley’s heroic portraits were based on pictures taken of young men found on the … Continue reading
Mardi Court: One Square Mile of Earth
One Square Mile of Earth is a short series by Jeff Drew with funny characters going around in the same bar. Bill a depressed bunny, Lucy the annoying goat and Pedro the squirrel definitely my favorite. It’s short and well written, it was also presented last year at the SXSW Festival.
Paris is burning.
New York, fin des années 80, il ne fait pas bon d’être latino ou afro-américain et gay. Rejetés par la société parce qu’ils sont latinos ou afroaméricains et rejetés par leur communauté parce qu’ils sont gay, le documentaire de Jennie Livingston réalisé en 1990 montre comment une communauté gay a créée une sous-culture avec des codes, ses valeurs et … Continue reading
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