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.
Cast
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Self (Archive footage)
J
James Noël
Narrator (voice)
D
Dieter Buchhart
Self - Expository Comissioner
Kevin Bray
Self - Director
P
Pablo Calogero
Self - Musician
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Self - Artist
A
Al Diaz
Self - Graphic artist
J
Jeffrey Deitch
Self - Gallery director
A
Alvin Fields
Self - Singer composer
L
Lizzie Himmel
Self - Photographer
Michael Holman
Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
E
Eric Justin Johnson
Self - Director
C
Cathleen McGuigan
Self - Journalist
Maripol
Self - Producer of the film Downtown 81
J
Jordana Moore Saggese
Self - Professor of American Art History, Maryland
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Ed Steinberg
Self - Producer and Galerist
L
Leisa Stroud
Self - Friend
Madonna
Self (Archive footage)
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