Join director Roger Gastman and graffiti legends TAKI183 and SNAKE 1, MIKE 171, SJK 171, HENRY 161, ROCKY 184, Wicked Gary, LSD OM and others for two screenings of Wall Writers: Graffiti in Its Innocence at the SVA Theatre in NYC.
Join director Roger Gastman and graffiti legends TAKI183 and SNAKE 1, MIKE 171, SJK 171, HENRY 161, ROCKY 184, Wicked Gary, LSD OM and others for two screenings of Wall Writers: Graffiti in Its Innocence at the SVA Theatre in NYC.
Get tickets for the screening here!
Both film and book were conceived and directed by Roger Gastman. Legendary filmmaker John Waters narrates the documentary and the book’s forward is written by acclaimed artist Barry McGee.
And the synopsis for the film sets the tone: "Before artists such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey became household names, there were graffiti pioneers who were responsible for adding such things as the first ever crown or arrow to their moniker beginning the evolution of style."
This is a film about origins of style, intent, meaning, pioneers, but just plain American art and culture history. Wall Writers is the story of its birth from Philadelphia and New York City during 1967 to 1973.
Wall Writers explores graffiti’s eruption into the mainstream society during a period of social turmoil in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, and takes a closer look not only at early graffiti’s place on the wall but its place in the culture of the time. Featuring unprecedented access to and exclusive interviews with graffiti’s originators CORNBREAD, TAKI 183, LSD OM, and more than a two-dozen others. Testimonies from journalists, historians and politicians who bore witness to the wall-writing revolution are also included in the film.
The screenings will take place on Friday, December 9th, 2016 at 6pm and 9:15pm at the SVA Theatre at 333 West 23rd Street in NYC. For more information at wallwritersthemovie.com