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Downtown '81

  • July 2001
  • 1hr

    12mins

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Music
  • Directed by

    Edo Bertoglio,

    Starring

    Jean-Michel Basquiat,

    Saul Williams,

    Anna Shroeder,

    Debbie Harry

    ...

    The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.