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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

Jun 24, 2022
0h 52m
★ 6.0

Overview

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.

Genres

Documentary
TV Movie

Production Companies

Tamara Films
France Télévisions

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Cast

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self (Archive footage)

Jean-Michel Basquiat

James Noël

Narrator (voice)

James Noël

Dieter Buchhart

Self - Expository Comissioner

Dieter Buchhart

Kevin Bray

Self - Director

Kevin Bray

Pablo Calogero

Self - Musician

Pablo Calogero

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Self - Artist

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Al Diaz

Self - Graphic artist

Al Diaz

Jeffrey Deitch

Self - Gallery director

Jeffrey Deitch

Alvin Fields

Self - Singer composer

Alvin Fields

Lizzie Himmel

Self - Photographer

Lizzie Himmel

Michael Holman

Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray

Michael Holman

Eric Justin Johnson

Self - Director

Eric Justin Johnson