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SF URBAN FILM FEST 2018

Painting the Town

Directed by William Higbie

SFUFF 2018, Documentary, Shorts / USA / 2018 / Documentary / 18 mins / English / Color / Video

Plays In:
Street Art as Political Currency

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Public Knowledge Annex
November 15, 2018 6:00 pm

Description

“Painting the Town” is a short-form documentary film that offers a view upon Detroit’s surging independent movement of street art and graffiti.

This once renegade art form – often expressed in massive building-sized murals – depicts subjects, both abstract and whimsical, as well as deeply personal.

How is this medium changing the face of Detroit, its popularity, and even its economy? But most of all, how can street art bring people together in ways that never been imagined a few short years ago?


Plays in

  1. Street Art as Political Currency

    SFUFF 2018 / 120 mins
    Murals are a powerful form of art that expose us to beauty while oftentimes critiquing political and social conditions. The act of painting murals often brings people together through a sense of affinity and shared purpose, while at the same time offering challenges to regimes of power, expressing dissent, of simply revealing alternate points of view. This program is collection of shorts focusing on visual and graphic art in the public realm as a way of expressing and cultivating social capital; and will explore how mural artists around the world are engaged in a practice that provokes and unites.

    In This Program: Not With Fire, but with Paint, Painting the Town, Concrete Canvas, The Dream Kontinues


Dates & Times

Plays In:
Street Art as Political Currency

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Public Knowledge Annex
November 15, 2018 6:00 pm