Catch BOMB IT down under at the Melbourne Stencil Festival on Friday August 8th at 9:45pm. For more info visit: www.stencilfest.net
Weekly Dig Press and Review
Bomb It is not just another graf-flick. It brings you back to day one, then up to the wild styles of tomorrow—from the streets of Philly to the rise and fall of NYC trains, to some real gangster shit in Los Angeles.. Doing the story honorable justice, director Jonathan Reiss explores the expression of ups through different cultures and nations. Interviews with the artists tell the story in the words of the writers themselves—including the legendary Zephyr, the teacher KRS-One and the king of the Bronx himself, Cope2. Traveling the globe, it gives you a taste of many styles: Writers paint on trains and walls for political reasons, or to just plain wreck shit. One thing is for sure—after watching this, you’re gonna want to write on something.
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Anti-Mag’s Interview with Jon Reiss
Jon Reiss is an aficionado of the underground. You can see it in his films, he roots for the guyswho have to fight for their culture. He showcases the underground, finding heroes within it’s realms but never really exploiting the culture. When asked how he felt about graffiti after the documentary, he replied,
“Street art and graffiti are visual freedoms of speech especially when the art is good. It helps enliven a society for those people who rarely go to galleries and museums, it is provides a little life for a city.”
Why is Bomb It! so gosh darn good? Well, there are many reasons for this. One of the mainonesbeing the fact that Jon explores the cultural and socio-political reasons for the art worldover. He’s interviewed writers from New York to Barcelona to South Africa. It’s interesting to see howAmerican graffiti writers compare and contrast with the rest of the world and each other. It’s profoundly clear the motivation which inspires these individuals to “get up”. When Lady Pink speaks from her New York roots as opposed to LA’s DJ Lady Tribe, its apparent that these two are coming from two very different worlds. Aesthetically, the differences are clear, but culturally, socially, and politically, they are widely varied.
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July 24th Connecticut Premiere — Get Bombed!
The Fairfield Weekly listed the BOMB IT Connecticut Premiere as the one thing to check out this Thursday, the 24th, at the Avon Theater in Stamford. Hope to see you there (there will be a nice door prize at the screening)!
7 Days: The Week That Is
THURSDAY JULY 24
Get Bombed
Hop on a train headed to Manhattan and chances are you’re going to see some tagging. Some say this an assault on our cityscapes and others say graffiti is one of the biggest art movements in decades. If you believe the latter, check out award-winning director Jon Reiss’s Bomb It!, a recent documentary delving into the international culture of the street art. The doc was filmed across the globe and showcases the artists and the movement in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo and Amsterdam. It also shows the origins of this art dating back to the ’70s and ’80s and features graffiti legends such as Taki 183, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revok, and Shepard Fairey. Avon Theatre Film Center, 72 Bedford St., Stamford. 9 p.m. $10, $7 for students and seniors. (203)967-3660. www.avontheatre.org.
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