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.
Pierre-Paul PuljizDirector
Pierre-Paul PuljizWriter
Top Billed Cast
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self (Archive footage)
Kevin Bray
Self - Director
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Self - Artist
Michael Holman
Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
Maripol
Self - Producer of the film Downtown 81
