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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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 & crew
Jean-Michel BasquiatSelf (Archive footage)
Kevin BraySelf - Director
Jean-Charles de CastelbajacSelf - Artist
Michael HolmanSelf - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group GrayExplore the crew
- Director
- Pierre-Paul Puljiz
- Writer
- Pierre-Paul Puljiz
- Editor
- Andrés Peyrot
- Producer
- Carole Chassaing
- Producer
- Anaïs Feuillette