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Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Earsnot, Claw, NM, Saber, Jase
Directed By: Doug Pray
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 0014381269529
Format: Color
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2006-10-17
Running Time: 91
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Summary: Great overview of Graff writers, thier motovations & consequences
Comment: Infamy is a good documentary style graff film that takes the time to really explain what graffiti writers are about. This is not just a 'piece' reel to showcase styles from different areas (Graffiti Verite'), nor is it a fictional movie with a plot (aka Bomb the System). Infamy details the motivations and ambitions of some well-known writers form around the country. All the writers interviewed are very articulate and express their thoughts and emotions clearly and are to the point, particularly Earsnot, NM, Saber, and DAZE. I found the bonus footage even more interesting than the film itself. Bonus material touches on topics ranging from the relationship of hip-hop and graff, the perception that graff writers are unsuccessful unemployed losers, and the commercialization of the graffiti subculture as it explodes into the mainstream.
Regardless of your take on graffiti and the people who produce it, watch this DVD and you'll gain insight on why they do it and what pushes them to continue. I found Anti-Graffti Nazi Joe Connely's point of view pretty valuable too. By the end of the film, we learn that he's actually doing the thing that he despises most.
"If you're going to be a writer, just shut the F up and write graffiti... and don't tell nobody"
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Summary: Is good...
Comment: By the maker of 'Scratch' I believe, Infamy sheds light on an art form that is ever present in most of our lives [living in city, or passing train tracks], and does an great job at showing more than one side of it. Multiple artists are interviewed from different cities and different styles, not to mention a graffiti removal nut in a LA suburb. Powerful.
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Summary: Aerosolt
Comment: Infamy is about artists going for fame. Pure and uncut through the decades
it's all there. All the phat beats and mad stlyes are there but in the end thats it. The movie displays illegal crime activity and what happens next. Some flashbacks in the movie are pretty macabre. This is really though hardcore bombing in different cities. This is the essence of graffiti and it's a cry for props in a world of none.
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Summary: Infamy is a funkin dope documentary
Comment: How can you not like this film? It's got such a wide diverse group of writers, from Jase to Claw, Earsnot, Saber and Enem. In depth and totally deep interviews. Amazing and beautiful footage. Even features the assclown Joe Connolly - the "Graffitti Guerilla" of LA who is a big graff artist himself with his buffwork. The best graff film since Style Wars, hands down. If you're into graffitti but not tagging, this will get you into it. If you're not into graffitti, this will still get you into it. See it. Worth it for the interviews with female writer Claw and gay writer Earsnot alone.
-feelsweird
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Summary: I don't care who you are...if you're a fan of art and personal experssion, grab this flick!
Comment: For all graf heads (especially) and even those that turn their nose at graffiti but have any appreciation for art/street culture and self expression, you need to check this film out. It's fantastic! Doug Pray (director and maker of SCRATCH) made this film because even though he was never a fan of graffiti, and even had a distaste for a lot if, he was curious to find out what it was all about. And he did...and the point of view from which he shot this film is exactly why it's so good! It's not a typical documentary where you'd expect the filmmaker to simply glamorize or demean graffiti, just give you the history of the art form, or tryto convince you that graffiti is this way or that way...it's a raw look into the lives of 7 people who lives revolve around the art form (with MANY artist and icon cameos throughout), and it gives you tremendous insight into what it really means to live and breath whatever it is your true passion may be. In this film , it happens to be graffiti. So, check it out! I doubt you'll be disappointed. And don't expect another SCRATCH...this film is a totally different kind of film.
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Take an intense journey into the dangerous lives and obsessed minds of six of America's most prolific graffiti artists. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Doug Pray (Hype! and Scratch) who teamed up with writer publisher and graffiti guru Roger Gastman the movie takes you deep into the world of street legends Saber Toomer Jase Claw Earsnot and Enem. With brutal honesty humor and charisma these artists reveal why they are so willing to risk everything to spray paint their cities with "tags" "throwups" and full-color murals. You'll also meet Joe "The Graffiti Guerilla" Connolly a notorious "buffer" who paints out graffiti on his neighborhood's walls with a vengeance matched only by those who vandalized them. From the streets of the South Bronx to the solitude of a San Francisco tunnel from high atop a Hollywood billboard to North Philadelphia for a lesson in "Philly-style tags" from the Mexican border to a Cleveland train yard Infamy doesn't analyze or glorify graffiti... it takes you there and brings it to life.System Requirements:Running Time 90 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: R UPC: 014381269529 Manufacturer No: PAL2695DVD
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