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BSA Film Friday 06.09.23

BSA Film Friday 06.09.23

June 9, 2023 ,
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Our weekly focus is on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. The Chronicles of a New York Locksmith / Keys to the City / The New Yorker. By Ian Moubayed

2. 5 MINUTES WITH: MAMBA (BERLIN) via I Love Graffiiti

3. Momo: Darmon 3 via Studio Cromie bald head.”

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BSA Special Feature: The Chronicles of a New York Locksmith

Great filmmaking doesn’t happen too often, but when it does, it resonates. Ian Moubayed captures his people and lets them tell their story, their way. This locksmith and his young protégé give parts of themselves to form a story that comes across as authentic, with great respect for all involved.

The Chronicles of a New York Locksmith / Keys to the City / The New Yorker. By Ian Moubayed

5MINUTES WITH: MAMBA (BERLIN) via I Love Graffiti

Can we say that graffiti writing film has become stunning? The inclusion of Christiane F’s “Wunderbar” lends the activities an isolated feeling of disjointed belonging, the rhythm of the city adding its structure to a nighttime escapade of vandalism and creativity. The painting is rigid and artful, the evenings opportunity eclipsed by the harsher elements, an ever-present game of cat and mouse. This is brilliant storytelling, a warm and distinct dance at the margin

Momo: Darmon 3 via Studio Cromie

Longtime friends, creative co-conspiritors, celebrators of the absurd, MOMO and Angelino travel together and bring you along. Again. Revisiting paradise (Maldives) after 10 years, you’ll notice some changes, some subtle, some clarifying. The shock of Sri Lanka brought that Honeymoon to a crash. And yet, as they travel, surrounded by beautiful people, nature, and culture, they rise to the occasion. Again and again.

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BSA Film Friday: 03.03.23

BSA Film Friday: 03.03.23

March 3, 2023 ,
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. BANKSY – A Quick Look Back – Exit Through the Gift Shop (August 2011)

2. Revenge of Nature – Orakle And Atmo

3. 5 Minutes With: IKARUS in Berlin. Via I Love Graffiti

4. De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturday

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BSA Special Feature: BANKSY – A Quick Look Back – Exit Through the Gift Shop

Because retrospectively assessing hype can be illuminating, and you can see how it has aged, and because we are always attracted to this contorted phone booth sculpture that undeniably emanates the style of Banksy, here’s a snippet from “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” A Dozen years on, what are your impressions?

REVENGE OF NATURE – Orakle And Atmo. Via Spray Daily.

Damn, that is serious rappelling! This is anonymously rappelling a dam for serious impact.

Styled as a nihilist dark pair of dual painting eco-activists, these Berlin-based Pixacao performance artists Orakle and Atmo want you to think about the “Revenge of Nature” that is currently underway. Selling the earth to the highest bidding abuser drives us down, and O&A are casting the case in dramatic thriller-movie terms to blow up their message.  

5 MINUTES WITH: IKARUS in BERLIN. Via I Love Graffiti

BYY Laura subtly shadows pixacao-writing, train-surfing Icarus as he hops over third rails and climbs out onto the street from an underground tunnel with master-of-fact aplomb. Great shots and integration. For the record, train surfing kills people. Don’t do it. Beware Icarus; you will very likely regret the fall.

“Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all, Is never to feel the burning light.”

Attributed to Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900

De La Soul – A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturday

Celebrating Trugoy and De La Soul today and Every Day. Wanna go skating this weekend?

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BSA Film Friday: 01.06.23

BSA Film Friday: 01.06.23

January 6, 2023 ,
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. The Laughing Heart – by Bradley Bell, Charles Bukowski, Tom Waits, and Grizzly Bear
2. METAL LOVERS via Spray Daily
3. HELLO FROM BERLIN – AGAIN – CTM.IOC CREWS via I Love Graffiti

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BSA Special Feature: The Laughing Heart – Bradley Bell, Charles Bukowski, Tom Waits, and Grizzly Bear

It makes us very happy to share this animated short film by Bradley Bell, “The Laughing Heart”, based on a poem by Charles Bukowski, as we publish the first edition of BSA Film Friday for 2023. We believe that your life and the choices you make determine what makes you unique and who you are. Stay honest and authentic with yourself; the mistakes that you will make will be as valuable as the victories you will celebrate.

METAL LOVERS via Spray Daily

From whole cars to whole trains, the Metal Lovers Crew staked their claim in ’21 and ’22. The choice of dramatic music here makes it extra impressive.

HELLO FROM BERLIN – AGAIN – CTM.IOC CREWS via I Love Graffiti

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BSA Film Friday: 04.29.22

BSA Film Friday: 04.29.22

April 29, 2022 ,
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Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening:
1. A Playgirl and Lowrider Life in Paintings
2. DRM Crew & Edward Nightengale in Berlin. I LOVE GRAFFITI
3. Elmgreen & Dragset: Useless Bodies

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BSA Special Feature: LA Playgirl and Lowrider Life in Paintings

“One of my friends said, ‘You make fine art for cholos,” says Los Angeles-based painter Jacqueline Valenzuela who depicts women lowriders in urban landscapes, murals and street art.

“For me its more important that the communities that I’m depicting feel like I am doing them justice.”

DRM Crew & Edward Nightengale in Berlin from I LOVE GRAFFITI

These young graffiti fathers are somehow feeling middle-aged and trapped: looking for the chance to return to painting trains. An open diary narrated describes the yearning to return to an earlier way of life, specifically graffiti bombing Berlin trains. The camera, sounds, and storyline all reveal how far they are willing to go to recapture memories for Berlin for graffiti writers Acid79, Micro, Shus, Area, Mad and Edward Nightingale. The result is an honesty about vandalism that is almost touching; a study of technique, materials, and patience – and a passion that is never quite quenchable.

Elmgreen & Dragset: Useless Bodies

Elmgreen & Dragset explore the present condition of the body in the post-industrial age – of course street art fans will think of Mark Jenkins here, but their additional narrative tells you that they think of the displacement of people wandering through post-industrial modernity, while his often references a more hopeful outlook.

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BSA Film Friday: 02.21.20

BSA Film Friday: 02.21.20

February 21, 2020 ,

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :
1. 5 Minutes with: Plotbot Ken via I Love Graffiti.de
2. Nadia Vadori-Gauthier: One Minute of Dance
3. Ron English: The Road To Heaven (Tribute to Daniel Johnston)

BSA Special Feature: 5 Minutes with: Plotbot Ken via I Love Graffiti.de

Plotbot Ken first caught our eye in the remnants of a factory full of environmental and personal hazards. His is an apocalyptic view of humanity and our shortsighted predilection for creating destruction and for poisoning the earth. But somehow he has made something positive from our dire idiocy. You don’t have to speak German to enjoy this video, or to understand the symbolism of his recurring gas mask motif, or his genius for placement.

Nadia Vadori-Gauthier: Une Minute De Danse Par Jour (One Minute of Dance Per Day)

In reaction to terrorist acts, dancer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier began a program to dance for one minute a day.

I dance as one manifests, like a small but daily one, to work for a living poetry, to act by the sensitive against the violence of certain aspects of the world. It felt like a series of small acts that might possibly prove to reconnect the disconnections in her own society. She sites the wisdom of a Chinese proverb to talk about her repeating acts of expression in the public sphere over many years: “Dripping water ends up going through stone.”

This compilation of her works can help us see that the aggregate of many small acts can indeed be phenomenal.

Ron English: The Road To Heaven (Tribute to Daniel Johnston)

Putting his thoughts and emotions in visual vocabulary, artist Ron English gives this personal offering as a moving tribute to the great singer/ songwriter Daniel Johnston, who passed away last autumn.

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