Grey City Artists Use Graffiti as Political Resistance in Brazil
On the streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil, a new form of graffiti was born. Like wildfire, the works of artists such as Os Gemeos, Nunca, and Nina spread through the streets of the city and then to art galleries and museums around the world.
Nevertheless, City Hall implemented the Clean City Law in an effort to "combat visual pollution," hiring a small team to paint over graffiti deemed aesthetically unpleasing. When a large-scale mural was painted over, the artists unleashed a graffiti war against the local government, giving birth to one of the most creative resistance movements in Latin American art. Together, the artists worked to recreate lost artwork in an act that embodied the tensions within the city over who decides which pieces are art and which pieces get painted over.
Official Selection at the DocNYC Film Festival.
"A lively doc that will please fans of the global graffiti scene..." - John DeFore, The Hollywood Reporter
Running Time
81 mins
Year
2013
Kanopy ID
2707917
Filmmakers
Languages
Subjects
Show More
Related videos
The Composing Material (Matéria de Composição) - Collaborative Artists Create Contemporary Music
A unique collaboration between filmmakers and composers in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Three composers, Guilherme Antonio Ferreira, Teodomiro Goulart and Oiliam Lanna, were given a short poetic video and asked them to compose music to the film. This film is a result of following the two-year music creation process from composition…
Galeno, A Crafty Boy (Galeno, Curumim Arteiro) - An Award-Winning Brazilian Artist’s Source of Inspiration
Galeno is one of the most important and productive Brazilian artists working today. He's had many exhibitions in Brazil and Europe and won several prestigious awards such as the Acquisition Prize.
Paintings, drawings, engravings, frescos, sculptures, and installations -- Galeno does it all. Influenced by Brazilian Constructivism and Neo-Concrete movements,…
Walt Disney Square - A Look at Contemporary Urban Life in Brazil
A "quasi-musical" approach on contemporary urban life that reflects Brazilian society and many others throughout the world. This documentary describes at the same time a place, a neighborhood, a city and a country. The real place, Boa Viagem - Recife, Pernambuco 51111-260, Brazil, encompasses all of the Brazilian way of…
Subtopia - Artist Adrian Doyle
Adrian Doyle is the dynamic face of the urban art world in Melbourne. A world where you have to be part artist, part academic, part entrepreneur and part social activist to succeed. A world where life and work are inseparably linked.
Show Me Rio! - The Authentic Rio de Janerio Experience
The best way to discover a city is through its people. In this film, notable Rio residents like artist Vik Muniz, model Andrea Dellal, singer Chico Buarque, designer Oskar Metsavaht and mayor Eduardo, amongst others who show us "their" Rio de Janeiro. The amazing Tijuca Forest, the Carnival, the Sunday…
A Mao e A Luva - Opening Libraries in Brazil
North east Brazil, State of Pernanbuco. We are in one of the poorest and most needy areas of the city of Recife, the Pina favela. This is where the film takes place, a film that recounts the story of Ricardo Gomes Ferraz, aged 35, better known as KCal. The favela…
Art Is...The Permanent Revolution
The anger and outrage captured by graphic artists and printmakers have defined revolutions through the centuries, depicting the human condition in all its glories and struggles so powerfully that perceptions, attitudes and politics have been dramatically influenced.
In Art Is...The Permanent Revolution, three contemporary artists and a master printer explore…
Going Back (De Volta) - Brazillian Prisoners Experience Four Days of Freedom
Four days of freedom. The greatest gift a prisoner can receive, and the greatest challenge.
GOING BACK follows four Brazilian convicts serving hard time who are granted temporary leave from prison during Christmas, 2012. Leandro, Midian, Sonia and Anderson return to their homes to confront the ghosts of the past,…
Revealing Sebastião Salgado (Revelando Sebastião Salgado) - The Life and Work of Brazillian Photographer Sebastião Salgado
This is the first Brazilian documentary about one of the most important contemporary photographers, Brazilian native Sebastiao Salgado. During an in-depth 2012 interview given at his house in Paris, Salgado shares about the beginning of his career, the importance of photojournalism in his life, his creative process, his on-the-road lifestyle…
Musical Memory – A Concert - Performing Brazil’s Lost Classical Works
A stunning classical music performance by the Symphony Orchestra of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
When one thinks of classical music, Brazil may not be the first country that comes to mind. However, with millions of immigrants from Germany, Italy and other countries, Brazil has had a long-lasting and vibrant culture…
Docobanksy - Graffiti in the Art World
From the streets of Bristol to the caverns of London and beyond, BanksyDoc finds the truths and explores the impact that the world's most famous graffiti artist has had on the art world, on the expression of protest and satire, and on the perception of what you can do with…
Through A Glass, Lightly - Chicago's Found-Object Artists
This film follows Mr. Imagination, David Philpot, and Kevin Orth as they search Chicago's streets and alleys for the raw materials of their art. It shows how they transform unwanted, discarded objects into color, form, texture; images and ideas; craft and art. The artists reveal how African and other cultures…