Piece By Piece : San Francisco Graffiti Documentary

A film directed by Nic Hill.

http://piecebypiecemovie.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_by...)
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/tru...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441781/
http://www.nichill.tv/

Piece By Piece documents San Francisco's graffiti culture from the early 1980s to 2004. It is narrated by San Francisco graffiti artist Senor One, better known as Renos. The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Cheryl Eddy singled the film out as the highlight of the 2006 Hi/Lo film festival, calling it "an educational experience" and "a thoughtful document". In a full review for that same paper, Johnny Ray Huston said it was "a thorough history that still makes time ... for abstract, lyrical flowing passages". Huston complained that sections such as those featuring Tie One or Reminisce could make movies in themselves, and wished to see more detailing of artists' entries into the legitimate art world. He concluded that the film and director "succeeded at a mighty task" and were interested in displaying "a deep but entertaining understanding of the city as both a historical site and a nexus for contemporary change". Rory L. Aronsky in Film Threat wrote that the documentary "gets this graffiti culture completely right" while for Dennis Harvey in Variety it was "an excellent overview of two decades' graffiti in San Francisco".

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[AlecRocksAtMotocross]

i dont understand..... theres these master graffiti artist who can legally do stencils like bansky(for example) he gets paid. Graffiti artist like us go out and do it....we gets put in jail longer than a damn rapist/murderers/pedofiles....­i just dont understand!

[Mike Noface]

RIP Mike Dream the King. RIP Tie.

Big up to Vogue-Poem-Stash TDK and Phresh for that East Bay funk. Big up DugOne the King for slanging caps and streakers out the shop. Respect Krush, Crayone, Cycle, Twisto, Giant. All major influence on me as an artist. I came up in that Psycho City era. Glad I got to see that at it's peak.

[curtisheckmann]

KG3

[AlecRocksAtMotocross]

i know bansky got paid for some of his work but not all of it. Before he was a stencilist/ legal street artist, he did it illegally.

[SaBRager]

watch the movie "bomb it" great documentary about graffiti world wide.

[SaBRager]

If you like this look at infamy or maybe bomb it. I liked bomb it because it takes place world wide. born and raised in SF i love this movie to death, I own the dvd but if you like this movie look at Dirty Hands: Search and Destroy and Other bombing movies. Alot of them are up on utube full versions as well.

[SaBRager]

yeah, police don't like to say it but they love us. We don't deal drugs, We don't hurt people. we simply do art, but they love us no matter what they say cities need graffiti. Keeps city clean up crews and people with community service employed and busy. and once a graffiti writer is caught the city can seek almost half a million dollars in restitution from you. and cops rather chase a kid with a spray can then a drug dealer with a glock. Pigs love Graffiti writers, they need us.

[HULL GRAFFITI]

Aint seen this fe a while...cool doc.

COPY N PASTE FE KILLA CHARACTER GRAFF - youtube.com/watch?v=_TFNJMQx2L­A

[ChainSnipe1]

graff will continue to live forever through the hearts and mind of our youth -esro

[Ray shrewsbury]

if it's legal for banksy then how did story of the wall happen?