Style Wars (1983)

Directed by

Tony Silver

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 09m

Rated

16

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary focuses on graffiti artists in New York City during the early days of hip hop culture. It shows them creating their art on subways and city walls, and includes some bboying and rapping.

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What happens

Style Wars is a 1983 American documentary film on hip hop culture, directed by Tony Silver and produced in collaboration with Henry Chalfant. The film has an emphasis on graffiti, although bboying and rapping are covered to a lesser extent. The film was originally aired on the television network PBS and was subsequently shown in several film festivals to much acclaim, including the Vancouver Film Festival. It also won the Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival. The documentary captures and includes many historical moments of hip hop culture during its earliest days in the 1970s onward towards the early 1980s. Many film elements from Style Wars, including outtakes, are now housed at the Academy Film Archive as part of the Tony Silver Collection. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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