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The Graffiti Artist (2004) |
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80
minutes
Rated: NR
Country: US
Studio: Indie-Pictures
Cast: Pepper Fajans, Ruben
Bansie-Snellman
Director/Screenwriter: James
Bolton |
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Synopsis |
Nick is a teenage loner who scours
the streets of Portland for his next
“canvas” – the side of a building,
train car, or overpass – where he
spray paints RUPTURE, his tagger
name. When Nick isn’t tagging, he’s
shoplifting aerosol paint and big
fat markers, or documenting his
graffiti in a scrapbook.
It turns out there’s a warrant for
Nick’s arrest in Portland, so he
heads to Seattle, where he meets
Jesse, another tagger he’s seen
around. The two start “kicking it”
and begin a dynamic artistic
collaboration. Nick crashes at
Jesse’s studio apartment, and it
isn’t long before they’re sharing
the sofa bed and swapping spit.
But skater-boy graffiti artist love
is fragile, and soon Jesse
mysteriously flees the relationship
and heads back to Portland,
promising to return. Eventually it
sinks in that Jesse isn’t coming
back, so Nick risks returning to
Portland to accost him. They
eventually cross paths, and when
Nick confronts him, Jesse acts
distant and weird. This triggers an
angry clash that unearths
fundamental cultural and artistic
differences between the boys. |
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