Screening: "Downtown 81" by Edo Bertoglio

Name: Screening: "Downtown 81" by Edo Bertoglio
Start: 2024-07-13T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55403

Schedule

Sat Jul 13 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

725 Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55403 | Minneapolis, MN

“I didn’t start doing graffiti until two years after I got to New York. Jean-Michel Basquiat was one of my main inspirations for doing graffiti. For a year I didn’t know who Jean-Michel was, but I knew his work.”—Keith Haring
19-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat stars as an artist in a once-lost film immortalizing NYC’s 1980s downtown scene. Over a day and a long dream-like night, Basquiat wanders the city, running into fellow street artists Lee Quiñones and Fab 5 Freddy, and catching musical performances by Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James White and the Blacks, and Arto Lindsay with DNA. Legend has it that Debbie Harry, who played a fairy princess in the film, bought one of Basquiat’s paintings after the filming ended. US, 1981/2000, 35mm, 72 min.
35mm print from Metrograph Pictures