Kings Of Broadway Style # 8043 · In this award winning documentary, Chris Pape brings us back to 1969 to explore the roots of graffiti and the people who would help define it over the next 20 years. Through incredible archival footage and interviews with the artists themselves, we watch a subculture build from scrawled tags to highly sophisticated paintings that span the length of subway cars. The filmmaker, an early graffiti artist himself, provides the narrative for the documentary. Interviews include three generations of graffiti artists: Ali, Bama, Crash, Ket, Part, Stan153, Terror161 and Zephyr. To discuss the sociological and political ramifications of the movement, Henry Chalfant, author of Subway Art and former mayor Ed Koch give their own perspective. This is the one film you must watch if you are a graffiti artist!
