![]() ![]() The documentary talks about the graffiti paradox, divided between its commercial boom, its institutional recognition and its ferocious repression. How was the idea born? Was there a story that inspired you? In which countries was the film shot? Furthermore – he helped Boris organize his first exhibition after his release from prison and later they worked together on several projects including the curation of exhibitions by MOSES & TAPS, Risote, Mygalo and others.Īmine Bouziane – portrait by Good Guy Boris Tell us about your upcoming documentary film. He has written for many magazines – from the French version of The Source to WAD Magazine, La Rumeur or Spray Magazine. His music label has produced and released a lot of quality rap music and videos, working with several artists as Pacewon of Outsidaz, Kool Keith, AG & OC of the DITC, Kurious jorge, GOD from Infamous Mobb, Insight, Sonic Sum, Cannibal OX and also artists from the electro scene. He was editor in chief of the magazine Syndikat at the end of the nineties and created Real Magazine in the beginning of 2000 (a magazine focused on the new US alternative Hip Hop scene). He has created documentaries around the world on many different subjects such as India, Egypt, Lebanon, Japan, Spain and others for different channels in France and all around the world. Therefore we not only agreed to participate in his project, but also to support it further in its realization.Īmine is a professional film director, journalist, music producer, video artist and curator. The topic of his film was interesting and it was surprising how nobody had opened it up to the general public before. We had a interesting conversation about the topic of his film and we were kindly surprised on his point of view and the thorough analysis he performed on the subject of Artists and Vandals in graffiti culture. ![]() We met with Amine in the Spring of 2014 at an art fair where he was following Jonone & Saeio in their installations. Their reports & features on graffiti over the last 5 years are either people walking around with machetes in the train depots, or incompetent reports on arrests of vandals, that are made to cast a profane slight on the image on the culture. ![]() And even though we were skeptical about it, we wanted to meet the person behind the film and learn more.įrench TV, as any other, is only looking for sensationalism, scandals and “reality”. The 52 minute version of the film will be aired on the national broadcaster “France4” on the 5th of October 2015, and later on “TV 5 Monde”, an international Francophone TV station.īefore we met with Amine Bouziane, the director of the film, we had already heard about his project from a friend of ours. ![]() Last week, a trailer about the upcoming television documentary: “GRAFFITI: PEINTRES ET VANDALES”, started to make the rounds about the graffiti media networks. ![]()
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