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.
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- Released
- Production
- France Télévisions, Tamara Films
Keywords
- new york city
- artists' life
- biography
- historical figure
- racism
- painter as artist
- portrait of an artist
- black arts
- environmental racism
- famous painter
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Top Cast
Jean-Michel Basquiat as Self (Archive footage)
James Noël as Narrator (voice)
Dieter Buchhart as Self - Expository Comissioner
Kevin Bray as Self - Director
Pablo Calogero as Self - Musician
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac as Self - Artist
Al Diaz as Self - Graphic artist
Jeffrey Deitch as Self - Gallery director
Top Crew
Pierre-Paul Puljiz · Director, Writer
Andrés Peyrot · Editor
Carole Chassaing · Producer
Anaïs Feuillette · Producer
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