Movies: Graffiti

From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes a short film featuring original graffiti innovators Blade and Maze painting a mural in 80's New York....

This film is a portrait of New York in the 1980s by famed photographer Steven Siegel, including footage of the subways, the parks, Times Square and other neighborhoods. The film is narrated by teenagers of that era....

Graffiti art documentary from 2009...

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Documentary about the anonymous graffiti artist KBTR....

A feature-length documentary about graffiti and street art with AXE, C215, CES53, CLOZE, DASIC, DOES, DRE/EARTH CRUSHER, GURS, HENDRIK ECB BEIKIRCH, LOGEK, NEVER, ONETON, SCAN, SEAZ, SEN2, SERAK, TECK....

Two writers in Lisbon talk about what it means to be a woman in graffiti world where the survival of the fittest is prevailed and it's difficult to be accepted....

They are known as "shock activists", surprising again and again with radical-provocative, often illegal art actions. Up-close insights into the work of the artist collective and the Berlin graffiti scene....

'No Free Walls' is an in-depth look at Brooklyn's changing landscape, through the eyes of Joseph Ficalora, the founder and inadvertent art curator of the Bushwick Collective art project....

Anti-Vandalism Educational Film...

Stockholm, Sweden is the spot, and you will see the usual suspects doing Trains, Backjumps, Wholecars, Panels, Insides & more of that. The action neavau is high and lots of ill and fresh fatcap styles. Sweden kicks ass again with these: WUFC, SDK, Y2...

Pasha and his mischievous friend Dan arrive from their provincial hometown to Moscow. Chasing a dream of a whole new adult life, they get to meet the city crew of graffiti writers. Being inspired by the coolest street artist of the city, Pasha starts...

Celebrating London’s women mural artists, documenting WOM Collective's Street Art Jam and graffiti workshop at Stockwell Hall of Fame....

Independently produced documentary looking at the graffiti scene in Sheffield UK....

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The first feature-length documentary on Mexican graffiti, street art and hip hop presents urban arts as a path of freedom and independence of an individual, who is confronting the global power of the capitalist system....

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Using kids' own arguments (both pros and cons), film presents overwhelming evidence that vandalism is dumb. Shows that graffiti-type vandalism costs over $20,000,000 a year....

Graffiti in it origins is a performance. It is inherently site specific, but wide angel lens on the iPhone prevents the photographer from documenting the work in its entirety. The commercialization of graffiti focuses only on the surface where the gr...