Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

52 mins | Documentary | June 22, 2022

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.

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

52 mins | Documentary | June 22, 2022

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
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.
Producers France Télévisions, Tamara Films
Original title Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu
Directors Pierre-Paul Puljiz
Writers Pierre-Paul Puljiz

Cast

Jean-Michel Basquiat

as Self (Archive footage)

James Noël

as Narrator (voice)

Dieter Buchhart

as Self - Expository Comissioner

Kevin Bray

as Self - Director

Pablo Calogero

as Self - Musician

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

as Self - Artist

Al Diaz

as Self - Graphic artist

Jeffrey Deitch

as Self - Gallery director

Alvin Fields

as Self - Singer composer

Lizzie Himmel

as Self - Photographer

Michael Holman

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

Eric Justin Johnson

as Self - Director

Cathleen McGuigan

as Self - Journalist

Maripol

as Self - Producer of the film Downtown 81

Jordana Moore Saggese

as Self - Professor of American Art History, Maryland

Ed Steinberg

as Self - Producer and Galerist

Leisa Stroud

as Self - Friend

Madonna

as Self (Archive footage)