The Writing on the Wall
1986•28m•7.0•Released
Documentary
"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.'
Languages
English
Studio
New Jersey Network (NJN)
Cast
Too Sweet Hakeem
Phil Danzig
John Carlin
Roberta Crane
Henry Chalfant
Production
Company
New Jersey Network (NJN)
Producer
Sandra King
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