A Knife in the Eye
A day in the life of the Belgian painter, Michaël Borremans.
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.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Self (Archive footage)
James Noël Narrator (voice)
Dieter Buchhart Self - Expository Comissioner
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)
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