Info
Director: Edo Bertoglio
Section: Museum Brandhorst | Sparkling and Wild: ’80s New York in Film
Country: USA
Year: 1981
Language: English
Version: Original version
Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Anna Schroeder, Deborah Harry
18+ (no age rating)
Logline
In this long-lost film, Basquiat, who was still unknown at the time, plays himself.
Filmmakers Edo Bertoglio and Glenn O’Brien follow 21-year-old Jean-Michel Basquiat around for a whole day. The artist has to come up with rent money in order to be allowed to move back into the apartment he’s been evicted from. Hoping to sell a painting, he roams the streets of the Lower East Side, encountering all its characters and clubs.
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Meet the director
Edo Bertoglio
Edo Bertoglio, born in 1951 in Lugano, Switzerland, is a photographer and director known for his relationship with the most crucial character of the NYC art scene in the 80s. He is the director of DOWNTOWN 81 and FACE ADDICT.
Credits
Screenplay: Glenn O’Brien
Director of Photography: John McNulty
Film Editor: Pamela French
Composer: Maripol, Glenn O’Brien
Sound: Robert Maier
Producer: Maripol
Production Company: New York Beat Films
Co-Producer: Patrick Montgomery, Glenn O’Brien