Bomb It (2007)

Directed by

Jon Reiss

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary travels to cities around the world to look at graffiti and street art. It shows how different artists create their work and talks about the laws that try to control public spaces.

internationalurbanrebelliousinformativefast-pacedrawenergeticstreetwise

What happens

Bomb It is an international graffiti and street art documentary directed by Jon Reiss that premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. Filmed on five continents, featuring cities such as New York, Cape Town, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Berlin and São Paulo, Bomb It explores the interplay between worldwide graffiti movements, the global proliferation of "Quality of Life" laws, and the fight for control over public space. International graffiti artists collaborated with Reiss to create the film which features original footage from many graffiti artists beginning with the first modern graffiti artist Cornbread, to those who saw the take off of the art, TAKI 183 to more contemporary artists Shepard Fairey and Os Gemeos. In addition to TAKI 183, the film features Tracy 168, Terrible T-Kid 170, Cope2, Stay High 149, KRS-One, Revs, 2esae, Zephyr, Cornbread, DAIM, Blek le Rat, Ash, Revok, Ron English, DJ Lady Tribe, Lady Pink, Mear One, urban theorists Stefano Bloch and Susan A. Phillips, actor and filmmaker Russ Kingston and Faith47. George L. Kelling, co-author of Broken Windows, an Atlantic Monthly article that formed the basis for Rudy Giuliani's widely imitated gentrification campaign, was interviewed for this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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