

24/06/2022
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
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)
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