Doc Nights

BOOM FOR REAL: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Directed by Sara Driver

USA, 2017, 1h 18min, DCP

Doc Nights

There are no current or future screenings planned for this film.

Before the legend, the fame, the paintbrushes – there were spray cans.

Sara Driver returns to the director’s chair for this demythologizing portrait of a teenage Jean-Michel Basquiat adrift in the graffiti-ridden streets and night clubs of New York City – pre AIDS, crack, Giuliani. Using never before seen footage, artworks, and interviews with Fab 5 Freddy, Jim Jarmusch, and Nan Goldin – Driver crafts a spirited portrait of a luminary artist – eternally cool. Enigmatic, magnetic, turbulent – BOOM FOR REAL.

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