Seems like this could be an interesting film. Peep the synopsis and trailer.
www.infamythemovie.com trailer [quicktime]
Kevin Lewis and Tes Tesfay of Paladin Entertainment, along with Image Entertainment and QD3 Entertainment, are proud to announce the completion of Infamy, a new
feature-length documentary film shot and directed by Doug Pray, produced by the 1171 Production Group and Supervising Producer Roger Gastman.Infamy is an intense journey into the lives, minds, and families of seven individuals who
are obsessed with graffiti and follow that obsession into the most unexpected places. Cameras follow Los Angeles legend SABER by night as he dangles on the supports of a billboard hovering twenty stories up, and by day into the city’s Museum of Natural History, where he is featured in an exhibition about the L.A. River. New Yorkers EARSNOT and CLAW cover the City’s surfaces with their tags in the face of their graffiti minority status as openly gay and female, respectively, and then into their jobs as icons in the Downtown fashion scene. Philadelphia’s ENEM and Los Angeles’ TOOMER tour their intricate murals for murdered friends, as well as their rapidly styled tag signatures, which they frankly prefer. San Francisco’s JASE heads to paint freight trains that will take his art throughout North America, then to his day job in graffiti-specialized spray paint distribution. Finally, there’s JOE CONNOLLY “The Graffiti Guerrilla,” who makes the removal of Los Angeles graffiti his daily passion. Woven throughout these individuals’ stories are their families and neighborhoods; and for every preconception of who is a graffiti writer that they fulfill, there’s one that turns out dead wrong.
We caught this movie at the L.A. Film Fest.
Doug Prey did such a wonderful job with Scratch that I was eagerly awaiting his next progect -didnt think it would be another hip hop film though but we were pleasently suprised.
Interesting to get inside the head of the graff writers involved especially CLAW and JASE.
That graffiti cop was crazy and it was interesting how he almost seemed to be morphing into the same writers he was chasing after.
He even catches a tag on a wall in the movie. AMB.
The graff writers were easier to relate to then him which is quite ironic.
Toomr’s story at the beginning of the movie (Mt Rushmore) and the part with Joe Connoly going after ONCH were really humerous.
“and you know BLT dont stand for BACON LETTUCE and TOMATO”
SABERs mom was cool, CLAWs mom wasnt etc
Over all an interesting journey into the minds and life mof graff writers.
ENEM KILLED IT IN THAT MOVIE