Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self (Archive footage)

James Noël

Narrator (voice)

Dieter Buchhart

Self - Expository Comissioner

Kevin Bray

Self - Director

Pablo Calogero

Self - Musician

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Self - Artist

Al Diaz

Self - Graphic artist

Jeffrey Deitch

Self - Gallery director

Alvin Fields

Self - Singer composer

Lizzie Himmel

Self - Photographer

Michael Holman

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

Eric Justin Johnson

Self - Director

Cathleen McGuigan

Self - Journalist

Maripol

Self - Producer of the film Downtown 81

Jordana Moore Saggese

Self - Professor of American Art History, Maryland

Ed Steinberg

Self - Producer and Galerist

Leisa Stroud

Self - Friend

Madonna

Self (Archive footage)