The Graffiti Artist (2004)

The Graffiti Artist (2004) Country: USA Release Year: 2004 Director: James Bolton Writer: James Bolton Language: English Genre: Drama Runtime: 78 min Cast: Ruben Bansie, Pepper Fajans Luke Cook, Robert D. Heath Jr. Pledgure Duoshun, Zachary S. Smalls Rich Carlton, Rich Clemets Studio: Mettray Reformatory Pictures Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402223/ Available on:

Adrift in a lush, nocturnal urban landscape, Nick is a post-modern urban hero asserting his anarchistic agenda on the endless maze of virgin exterior walls that comprise downtown Seattle and Portland. For writer/director Bolton's lonely "tagger" protagonist, the vast wall surfaces of deserted alleys and trainyards are at once a daunting symbol of capitalist oppression and a texturally rich, seamless tableau ripe for exploitation to amplify his artistic dialectic of anger and rebellion. His own virtually anonymous existence seemingly only secondary to the painted surfaces and "rupture the system" manifesto which more poignantly evidence his presence, Nick's prodigious solo graffiti output is interrupted by friendship with another young tagger. Their communication begins as less verbal than a kind of shared graphic tour de force; their enormous collaborative graffiti murals appear to emerge as the unmistakable offspring of their kindred spirit. But eventually their assumptions about one...