A documentary film by Shan Nicholson, USA, 2010
Rubble kings documents the courageous movements that combated the widespread gang scene in New York during the late sixties and early seventies and provided the inspiration for Walter Hill’s cult classic The Warriors. Outside of the civil rights movement, people fought for their rights in the street. From the eventual end of these violent times came the birth of a new cultural movement, hip-hop. Nicholson delicately documents a world-changing era that spread a beat from the streets of New York around the globe and brought the city out of an era of gang violence.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Mur murs
Directed by Agnes Varda, France-USA, 1981
Les murs peints de Los Angeles reflètent toute une civilisation. « En 1980, j'ai fait Mur, murs, un vrai documentaire, pour découvrir une ville et ses habitudes, ses couleurs et leurs mots. Un portrait de la cité à travers ses murs. J'ai voulu le film ensoleillé, coloré et surprenant comme un collage spectaculaire même si cette cité exprime beaucoup d'anxiété et une recherche confuse de sa propre identité ». Agnès Varda
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Les murs peints de Los Angeles reflètent toute une civilisation. « En 1980, j'ai fait Mur, murs, un vrai documentaire, pour découvrir une ville et ses habitudes, ses couleurs et leurs mots. Un portrait de la cité à travers ses murs. J'ai voulu le film ensoleillé, coloré et surprenant comme un collage spectaculaire même si cette cité exprime beaucoup d'anxiété et une recherche confuse de sa propre identité ». Agnès Varda
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Culture Hip Hop à New York
Culture Hip Hop à New York, is a documentary by Jean-François Vallée
on the early 90es hip hop culture.
Features the Wu-Tang Clan, Lord Jamar, Chuck D, The Last Poets and more…
on the early 90es hip hop culture.
Features the Wu-Tang Clan, Lord Jamar, Chuck D, The Last Poets and more…
Friday, November 11, 2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75
The Black Power Mixtape examines the evolution of the Black Power
Movement
in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975.
The film combines music,
startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in
the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years),
and contemporary audio
interviews from leading African-American artists, activists,
musicians
and scholars.
Production facts
Writen and Directed by: Göran Hugo OlssonProduced by: Annika Rogell, Story AB
Co-Produced by: Joslyn Barnes & Danny Glover, Louverture Films
Music by Ahmir Questlove Thompson & Om'Mas Keith.
Executive producer Corey Smyth for Blacksmith Corp
Executive producer Corey Smyth for Blacksmith Corp
Art Director: Stefania Malmsten
Edited by: Göran Hugo Olsson & Hanna Lejonqvist
Friday, October 28, 2011
Faire kiffer les anges
A film by Jean-Pierre Thorn, 1996, France, 35mm, 2h08
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
Another state of mind, 1982
Another State of Mind is a documentary film made in the summer of 1982 chronicling the adventure (and misadventure) of two punk bands Social Distortion and Youth Brigade as they embark on their first international tour. Along the way they meet up with another progressive punk band, Minor Threat, whom they hang out with at the Dischord house for about a week near the end of their ill-fated tour.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
The Harder They Come, 1972
A poor Jamaican, a 1970s anti-hero, tries to make it with a hit record but finds that payola rules. His record will only be played if he signs away his rights. He turns to dealing marijuana and runs afoul of the law. As an underground fugitive, he becomes a political hero. An outstanding reggae soundtrack underscores the plot, in particular the lines from the title song: "I'd rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave."
Monday, August 29, 2011
Interview with Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat
Andy Warhol, by Kim Evans and Lana Jokel, 1986.
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends.
More here:
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends.
More here:
Keith Haring on french TV
Culturo-scope...
Après Warhol et avant de célébrer le 50ème anniversaire de la naissance de J-M Basquiat ce 22 décembre, retrouvons Keith HARING dans le cabaret parisien Shéhérazade, s'entretenir avec . Ils évoquent son surnom "Le Michel-Ange du métro de New York", ses influences, pourquoi il a choisit le métro pour faire connaître son art, sa première exposition, sa rencontre avec Andy WARHOL et Jean Michel BASQUIAT, la valeur de ses peintures, ses expositions parisiennes, le peintre qu'il aurait voulu être, et pour finir, Keith donne une définition de lui-même.Le tout illustrés par des photographies des oeuvres de Keith HARING.
Extrait de "Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches" - 20/01/1990
Après Warhol et avant de célébrer le 50ème anniversaire de la naissance de J-M Basquiat ce 22 décembre, retrouvons Keith HARING dans le cabaret parisien Shéhérazade, s'entretenir avec . Ils évoquent son surnom "Le Michel-Ange du métro de New York", ses influences, pourquoi il a choisit le métro pour faire connaître son art, sa première exposition, sa rencontre avec Andy WARHOL et Jean Michel BASQUIAT, la valeur de ses peintures, ses expositions parisiennes, le peintre qu'il aurait voulu être, et pour finir, Keith donne une définition de lui-même.Le tout illustrés par des photographies des oeuvres de Keith HARING.
Extrait de "Lunettes noires pour nuits blanches" - 20/01/1990
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
The New Dance Show, Detroit, USA
The New Dance Show was a television show in Detroit which ran in the late-1980s to mid-1990s on WGPR-TV 62 (now a CBS affiliate known as WWJ-TV). Hosted by R.J. Watkins, The New Dance Show was a low-budget local version of Soul Train and featured regular dancers including a man who dressed like a vampire and wore a cape and a woman who dressed as a boxer. The show was the successor to The Scene which aired during the late-1970s and early-1980s on the same station.[1]
Here's episode one, November 1988:
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Here's episode one, November 1988:
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The Scene TV Show, Detroit, USA
As a Detroit local TV show, The Scene aired during the late-1970s and early-1980s on WGPR-TV 62.
It was later replaced by The New Dance Show
Sharivari @ the Scene
The Scene back in 1985 introducing a local Detroit DJ.(Dr.PHD.AKA Paul Humphries)
It was later replaced by The New Dance Show
Sharivari @ the Scene
The Scene back in 1985 introducing a local Detroit DJ.(Dr.PHD.AKA Paul Humphries)
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
STUDIO ONE STORY
Studio One Story is a definitive guide to Jamaica's greatest ever record label, a 3hr film that tells the full story of Studio One and Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd. Filmed in Kingston, the documentary has interviews with many of the artists who Studio One made famous- Horace Andy, Alton Ellis, Ken Boothe, Sugar Minott, Dennis Alcapone, The Ethiopian, Lone Ranger, King Stitt and more.
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CBGB & OMFUG
CBGB (Country, Blue Grass, and Blues) was a music club at 315 Bowery at Bleecker Street in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Founded by Hilly Kristal in 1973, it was originally intended to feature its namesake musical styles, but became a forum for American punk and punk-influenced bands like Ramones, Misfits,Television, the Patti Smith Group, Mink Deville, The Dead Boys, The Dictators, The Fleshtones, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, Blondie and Talking Heads.
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Tuesday, July 12, 2011
El Acordeón del Diablo
El Acordeón del Diablo (Francisco el Hombre - Pacho Rada)
"Pacho Rada was one of the first troubadours to travel around the country playing unaccompanied, with just his voice and the accordion, bearing news and making music wherever someone had something to celebrate. He dreamt up hundreds of new songs on his travels, many of which have become classics.
He is known as the man who invented "son", one of the four Vallenato rhythms. However, Pacho was already too old by the time that musicians could get rich playing Vallenato music, when it became popular outside the province due to the marihuana boom in the seventies. At the age of 72 he became homeless once again."
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"Pacho Rada was one of the first troubadours to travel around the country playing unaccompanied, with just his voice and the accordion, bearing news and making music wherever someone had something to celebrate. He dreamt up hundreds of new songs on his travels, many of which have become classics.
He is known as the man who invented "son", one of the four Vallenato rhythms. However, Pacho was already too old by the time that musicians could get rich playing Vallenato music, when it became popular outside the province due to the marihuana boom in the seventies. At the age of 72 he became homeless once again."
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Monday, July 11, 2011
Arkestra
Sun Ra's "Space is the place", directed by John Coney, 1974, USA
More: http://www.worldheadpress.com/space-is-the-place-0-99.php
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More: http://www.worldheadpress.com/space-is-the-place-0-99.php
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From Disco to disco...
Maestro, directed by Jossel Ramos, USA, 2005
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Mean Streets
US Street gangs documentaries excerpts
The jungle. Pt1, late 60s
The jungle, Pt2, late 60s
Savage Skulls, 1972
Youth Terror: The view from behind The Gun, 1976
Street gangs NY
80 blocks from Tiffany's, 1979
Apache Line: from Gangs to Hip Hop, 2004
The jungle. Pt1, late 60s
The jungle, Pt2, late 60s
Savage Skulls, 1972
Youth Terror: The view from behind The Gun, 1976
Street gangs NY
80 blocks from Tiffany's, 1979
Apache Line: from Gangs to Hip Hop, 2004
Skateboard kings
Off the wall: Skateboard kings, 1978, UK
“Skateboard Kings” is a news documentary that was made by a British program called “The World About Us”. This episode is about the Skateboard Kings of Southern California, and in particular riders such as the World Champion Tony Alva are featured in their daily lives and exploits in and around DOGTOWN. Ray Flores, Billy Yeron, Paul Constantineau, Jerry Valdez, Shogo Kubo, Kent Senatore, Ellen O’neil, Bob Mohr, Elen Berryman, Kim Cespedes and others. Russ Howell and Stacy Peralta are featured in a bizzare freestyle and safety demonstration. La Costa segment with Henry Hester, Bob Skolberg and John Hutson. There’s visits to SkateBoarder Magazine, a few empty pools, a new skatepark, typical DogTown house party, demo’s, a visit to the infamous Arizona Pipes, and a skate board manufacturer. This is a “cult classic” special that is hard to find, that’s why we’ve posted here for you all to enjoy and share, for the oldschool hard core skate fanatic.
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“Skateboard Kings” is a news documentary that was made by a British program called “The World About Us”. This episode is about the Skateboard Kings of Southern California, and in particular riders such as the World Champion Tony Alva are featured in their daily lives and exploits in and around DOGTOWN. Ray Flores, Billy Yeron, Paul Constantineau, Jerry Valdez, Shogo Kubo, Kent Senatore, Ellen O’neil, Bob Mohr, Elen Berryman, Kim Cespedes and others. Russ Howell and Stacy Peralta are featured in a bizzare freestyle and safety demonstration. La Costa segment with Henry Hester, Bob Skolberg and John Hutson. There’s visits to SkateBoarder Magazine, a few empty pools, a new skatepark, typical DogTown house party, demo’s, a visit to the infamous Arizona Pipes, and a skate board manufacturer. This is a “cult classic” special that is hard to find, that’s why we’ve posted here for you all to enjoy and share, for the oldschool hard core skate fanatic.
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Salsa Opus 1
"Salsa Opus 1" is the first episode of a serie by Yves Billon
More: http://www.culturetheque.org.uk/watch/documentaries/22702-salsa-opus-1
"In the New York melting pot, the arrival of salsa dancing has realised the dream of General Bolivar: "Unite under the same banner, around the same culture and passsion, people as different as Colombians, Portoricans and Cubans". Salsa in New York has a deep latin vibe that allows South Americans to exhibit and celebrate their language and culture. "
More: http://www.culturetheque.org.uk/watch/documentaries/22702-salsa-opus-1
"In the New York melting pot, the arrival of salsa dancing has realised the dream of General Bolivar: "Unite under the same banner, around the same culture and passsion, people as different as Colombians, Portoricans and Cubans". Salsa in New York has a deep latin vibe that allows South Americans to exhibit and celebrate their language and culture. "
Fania All Stars
Fania All Stars: Our latin thing, 1972, USA, Documentary
More: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833608/
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More: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0833608/
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From Mambo to HipHop
Henry Chalfant's documentary "From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale" (2006)
More : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1169817/fullcredits#cast
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More : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1169817/fullcredits#cast
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