09/09/2010 - 4:30pm
09/09/2010 - 10:30pm
Etc/GMT
The definitive graffiti movie and winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, this seminal doc offers both a history and an up-close and personal glimpse of the “writers” who defined New York City’s subculture of subway graffiti in the 1970s and early 80s: one-armed “computer rock” prophet KASE 2 rhyming and boasting; ski-goggled SKEME sparring with his mother in their kitchen; DONDI musing on the solitary artist surrounded by metal machines; and SEEN doing a step-by-step how-to to Dion’s “The Wanderer.” Style Wars captures the pulse and collective psyche of the city at the time, from angry train riders to smug Mayor Koch and Richard Ravitch, then head of the MTA.
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