The documentaries reviewed discuss the history and culture of graffiti from the 1970s-1990s. They profile influential graffiti artists like Shepard Fairey and follow the evolution of graffiti styles. While some focus more on the artistic and cultural aspects, others simply showcase graffiti scenes of the time. The reviewer found that they effectively documented an era when graffiti faced more controversy, helping to understand its progression into a more accepted art form today.

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What's this documentary about?
This documentary is about a young street enthusiast with a message for the world to get
his passion out. He choose two main styles of graffiti, 'stencil' and 'wheatpaste’.
The documentary follows him from when he was young and getting into graffiti all the way
to his career in fashion owning his own fashion brand 'OBAY’ which was influenced a lot
through his graffiti.
The logo what he use to stencil onto walls now its onto clothes and gives him a better way
to spread his messages.
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What went well?
I think this documentary was put together really well. It had a famous graffiti writer talk
you through the entire film which is something I would like to incorporate into mine.
The first hand perspective makes it work really well along with all the shots of the stencils
being made and put up it is really nice to see in a documentary. The angles and shot types
also work really nicely with a wide range of both.
It was filmed in 2018 so the technology was a bit dated which in my opinion gave it an
even better look as it had its own style to it.
The style was an older rebellious type of vibe which helped put the watcher into the
position of this writer something I really liked. Overall I really enjoyed this video and
thought it had a really nice story line.

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What could be better?
Overall I don’t think they could have made it any better, it had all of the elements of a great
documentary in terms of content and the way it was filmed.
The fact it was a personal documentary with one writer made it easy to stay on track with what
messages he wanted to give. From a technical perspective, when compared to what we have
now a days then yes it could have looked better and more up to date, however, the audio and
shots where all good and clean.

4. Style wars
This is a documentary I covered in my research and I really enjoyed watching it again. It
is a unique documentary filmed in 1983 New York, which at the time of filming has just
the fraction of the amount of graffiti it does now.
This documentary really pushed the already growing scene in New York and would be a
big influence to the spread of graffiti globally. It follows the younger generations of
graffiti writers growing up in New York from a time where the scene was only starting to
take off.
What is 'Style wars'?
I think this is one of the best graffiti documentaries ever just because of the time period
and how well it was made.
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In the time of making, graffiti and the general scene was relatively new and was getting a
lot of push back and people didn’t understand or like it. It was seen as criminal.
So for these guys to go out and make this documentary was a huge step for graffiti as a
whole. The filming was also really good for those with decent cameras unique spots and
exclusive interviews with these writers is amazing to watch.
The style as well is very good as the producers clearly understand what they doing and the
graffiti they are shooting, the quality of this video is just crazy in my opinion.
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6. Beautiful losers
This is a documentary about a group of writers in 1990s. The main writers that feature
are ‘ Mark Gonzales, Spike Jonze, Margaret Kilgallen, Mike Mills, Barry McGee, Phil
Frost, Chris Johanson, Harmony Korine, and Ed Templeton’.
The artist Shepard Fairey who is also in this video is the creator of ‘Obey’. He has his own
graffiti documentary which I have already covered as he helped influence a lot of the
graffiti and stencils in now a days.
However this documentary shows how these guys all grew up in the skating and graffiti
scenes and how they influence the whole graffiti scene with their work. Most of them
have now gone into professions such as art or skating.
This video looks at the subject from a very arty side which helps as they get all the
information along with how they filmed it very nicely. The technical aspects of this video
are also very good for the time of filming and the fact that they are all artists made it
really appealing to me as I am into that as well.
I also feel that even for the people that aren't it gives them a nice in site to art . It also is
really easy to follow as they filmed it in a way that everything makes sense in the order
that it is.
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7. Stations of the Elevated
This is very different to all the other documentaries which I've look at as it is just all about the graffiti with
no talking or sounds other than of trains and so old jazz very fitting to the style.
It doesn’t really follow specific people but more specific spots all to do with the railway system in 1981 New
York. There are no interviews so it doesn’t really say what its about or what's happening but it is all just
hundreds of clips of people doing graffiti in the 1980s a very important time in graffiti history.
I really enjoyed watching this documentary as I have a passion for graffiti however I believe a lot of
people wouldn’t like it and would get bored quite easily of it as it is just back to back shots of
graffiti. However, from my perspective the quality is very good and the range of clips is very good for that
time the music also fits in nicely with this as it is jazz from around those times.
The whole video flows cleanly and each clip fitting to what they wanted to show. I'm not too sure who
came up with the idea of this but I think it a piece of graffiti history that needs to be treasured. Much like
‘style wars’ they are both filmed in a time where graffiti was so controversial and there were so many
negative opinions towards it.
I find it truly inspiring to create something to show how graffiti has progressed in that time. The whole
culture has changed so much and there isn’t even that much hate on it now days I think this being the
reason why most these graffiti films were made in a time where it was. Overall I really enjoyed it but can
see how to some people they could hate it and get bored.
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