Tagged: graffiti

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Wild Style (1983)

A drama with some documentary-worthy concert performances, Wild Style, which is a slang term for the jittery lettering of graffiti, is a seminal hip-hop film, covering some of the origins of the art form in the...

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Beat Street (1984)

Producer and activist Harry Belafonte’s commercialized slice-of-life drama stars Guy Davis as Kenny ‘Double K’ Kirkland, a South Bronx hip-hop DJ with big dreams, and Jon Chardiet as Ramon, a Puerto Rican graffiti artist...

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Style Wars (1983)

Style Wars is a documentary look at the street art among the youth of New York in the early 1980s, especially in the South Bronx, particularly in graffiti art and break-dancing.  The film takes...