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The Writing on the Wall (1986)

The Writing on the Wall (1986)

Documentary
Release Date: 1986, December 11
Countries: United States of America
Production: New Jersey Network (NJN)

Overview:

"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'

Keywords:

1980s ghetto hip-hop urban decay vandalism subculture newark, new jersey rap graffiti