BAADASSSSS CINEMA

Isaac Julien'S 2002 documentary explores the early days of the so-called Blaxploitation genre movies.

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Big Fun In The Big Town, 1986

By Bram Van Splunteren, Dutch filmmaker, journalist and rap fanatic New York, 1986: a city of big dreams and equally big problems. Like New York itself, hip-hop music encompassed both of these human conditions. But hip-hop and its cultural birthplace shared other important characteristics, too: the desire to always be original, a hustle-to-survive ambition, and -- if the stars aligned -- the ability to come out on top, no matter what the odds.

Dressing for pleasure

A 1977 fetish film by John Samson that influenced Britain’s punk scene:



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Rubble kings

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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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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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…

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 Olsson
Produced 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

Art Director: Stefania Malmsten

Edited by: Göran Hugo Olsson & Hanna Lejonqvist

Faire kiffer les anges

"Depuis quinze ans - du Bronx aux Minguettes - dans des villes et leurs banlieues, s'est imposé un mouvement artistique rebelle, le « hip-hop » qui à travers graffs, rap et danse permet à une jeunesse exclue de dire: j'existe!. Qui sont les danseurs de ce « mouv » ? Leurs parcours, leurs rages, leurs rêves, leurs espoirs ? Qu'est-ce qui fait que toute une génération - qui se vit comme « grillée » - se reconnaît dans l'énergie particulière de cette culture ? D'où vient la beauté sauvage de ce langage des corps (inventé sur des cartons à même le sol) passant aujourd'hui de la rue à la scène et bousculant tous les codes de la danse contemporaine? Un voyage initiatique à travers les paysages lunaires - friches industrielles, caves, cités, centres urbains anonymes - à la rencontre de quelques-uns des personnages de cette aventure pour restituer une parole véritable - intime - à tous ceux que l'on n'entend plus d'ordinaire qu'à travers le prisme déformé des médias, lorsque brûle la banlieue au journal de 20 heures."

 A film by  Jean-Pierre Thorn, 1996, France, 35mm, 2h08

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The other F word

Directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins
IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 2ND, 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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Drawing The Line: A Portrait of Keith Haring

1989 documentary by Elisabeth Aubert

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Watt Stax

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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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History of House Music

Pump up the volume, 2006, UK

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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. "

Fania All Stars

Fania All Stars: Our latin thing, 1972, USA, Documentary
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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