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.

Directed by Pierre-Paul Puljiz

Top cast

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self (Archive footage)

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James Noël

Narrator (voice)

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Dieter Buchhart

Self - Expository Comissioner

Kevin Bray

Self - Director

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Pablo Calogero

Self - Musician

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

Self - Artist

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Al Diaz

Self - Graphic artist

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Jeffrey Deitch

Self - Gallery director

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Alvin Fields

Self - Singer composer

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Lizzie Himmel

Self - Photographer

Michael Holman

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

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Eric Justin Johnson

Self - Director

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Cathleen McGuigan

Self - Journalist

Maripol

Self - Producer of the film Downtown 81

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Jordana Moore Saggese

Self - Professor of American Art History, Maryland

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Ed Steinberg

Self - Producer and Galerist

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Leisa Stroud

Self - Friend

Madonna

Self (Archive footage)

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