The Writing on the Wall

The Writing on the Wall

1986 en 28 minutes

Rating: 7

Plot

"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.'

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Cast

Too Sweet Hakeem

Too Sweet Hakeem

Phil Danzig

Phil Danzig

John Carlin

John Carlin

Roberta Crane

Roberta Crane

Henry Chalfant

Henry Chalfant

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