Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Born: December 22, 1960
Died: August 12, 1988
in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting. Basquiat died of a heroin overdose on August 12, 1988, at the age of 27.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
Title: Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
Character: Self (Archive footage)
Released: June 22, 2022
Type: Movie
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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Title: 70 Years of Youth Revolt
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 21, 2020
Type: TV
A look back at the social movements, revolts and youth subcultures from the post-war period to the present day: after the World War II, the left-bank of Paris became a mecca for jazz and alternative living, youth culture was born with trailblazing American movies, and rock became the soundtrack to a generation that wanted to change everything.
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Title: Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 19, 2018
Type: Movie
Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
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Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Title: Basquiat: Rage to Riches
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 7, 2017
Type: Movie
This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and Jeanine, who have never before agreed to be interviewed for a TV documentary. With striking candour, Basquiat's art dealers - including Larry Gagosian, Mary Boone and Bruno Bischofberger - as well as his most intimate friends, lovers and fellow artists, expose the cash, the drugs and the pernicious racism which Basquiat confronted on a daily basis. As historical tableaux, visual diaries of defiance or surfaces covered with hidden meanings, Basquiat's art remains the beating heart of this story.
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Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Title: Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 2017
Type: Movie
A chronicle of the personal life and public career of the celebrated artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel.
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Con Artist
Title: Con Artist
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
A docu-comedy feature film about a once-famous millionaire "business artist" forced to confront his own legendarily obnoxious behavior, while trying to find love through fame.
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Basquiat, Une Vie
Title: Basquiat, Une Vie
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: October 10, 2010
Type: Movie
From Brooklyn to the Bronx, Soho to Greenwich, Union Square to Wall Street... Join us and the friends, collaborators and gallery owners who supported Jean-Michel Basquiat throughout his life. The first ever recognized graffiti artist, who saw international success as a neo-expressionist painter in the 80s, Basquiat is a true contemporary hero who died at the peak of his career.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Title: Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 2010
Type: Movie
A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York City painter Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring extensive interviews conducted by Basquiat's friend, filmmaker Tamra Davis, the production reveals how he dealt with being a black artist in a predominantly white field. The film also explores Basquiat's rise in the art world, which led to a close relationship with Andy Warhol, and looks at how the young painter coped with acclaim, scrutiny and fame.
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The Universe of Keith Haring
Title: The Universe of Keith Haring
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A portrait of New York artist Keith Haring. The film looks to Haring as an artistic role model for his preternatural talent, of course, but also for his infectious lust for life that had him as committed to social activism and teaching children as to his latest painting.
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A Conversation with Basquiat
Title: A Conversation with Basquiat
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A candid interview with the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat near the end of his life.
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TV Party
Title: TV Party
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 3, 2005
Type: Movie
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and "sub-realism" as Glenn would put it. Walter Steding and his TV Party "Orchestra" provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand, and many artists and musicians, from The Clash, Nile Rodgers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bryne and Arto Lindsey were regular guests. It was the cocktail party that could be a political party. With 80 hours of disintegrating 3/4 inch videotape as a starting point, we tracked down the trend setting participants still living today and found out what they remember of the period and how the show influenced their lives. This, combined with clips from the orginal show, became the documentary "TV Party.
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And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Title: And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With interviews from various figures in the community such as Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Fab 5 Freddy, KRS-One, MC Hammer and Busy Bee.
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Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Title: Blondie Greatest Video Hits
Character: Nightclub DJ (segment "Rapture") (archive footage)
Released: October 8, 2002
Type: Movie
1)In The Flesh 2)X Offender 3)Denis 4)Detroit 442 5)(I'm Always Touched By Your)Presence,Dear 6)Picture This 7)Hanging On The Telephone 8)Heart Of Glass 9)Dreaming 10)Union City Blue 11)Atomic 12)The Tide Is High 13)Rapture 14)The Hardest Part 15)Island Of Lost Souls 16)Maria
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Downtown '81
Title: Downtown '81
Character: Jean (archive footage)
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Title: Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 18, 1990
Type: Movie
Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.
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Shooting Star: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Title: Shooting Star: Jean-Michel Basquiat
Character: Self (archive)
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Traces the meteoric rise to fame of the Haitian-Puerto Rican artist whose success was unprecedented for an artist of colour in the U.S. Geoff Dunlop avoids the tawdry gossip and spectacle that have been the focus of other documentaries about the artist, and instead we see Basquiat speaking for himself in interviews and home movies, with former teachers and close friends sharing their accounts of Basquiat's life.
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The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Title: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Nan Goldin's slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” converted, mixed and screened as a film by the artist, portraying the American underground culture, the no wave scene, post-Stonewall gay subculture, among others.
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King Pleasure
Title: King Pleasure
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Upcoming documentary about artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. The estate of the legendary artist is on board the project and has granted full access to archival material and original works of art, allowing it to be a mash-up of never-before-seen home movies, notebooks, photographs, animation, and interviews.