Documentary Films: Exploring Graffiti, Street Art & Urban Art

Giant artworks from the likes of Best Ever, Part2ism, Dr. D, The Krah, Dotmaster, Teddy Baden, Paul Insect and more, this is “One Foot in the Grove”, the London-based urban art event by Mutate Britain! One Foot in the Grove - Urban Art Event in London “One Foot in the Grove will be the kind of extraordinary art event […] A festival of art, music and food held in a unique location on the Portobello Road in Ladbroke Grove, West London. […] ...

After my photos and the interview, I found a further impression from Futura 2000’s “Odyssey Two” exhibition in Berlin today! Famous graffiti photographer Ruedi One documented the development of some of the artworks, which were shown at the Futura show. The video, which was created thereby, showcases Futura in a classical, beautiful black-and-white shot sequence. ...

As you could read some days ago, graffiti legend Futura 2000 was in Berlin for his recent exhibition Odyssey Two. During the opening, the New York-based iconic artists took some time to answer questions regarding his current work, past exhibition experiences, and so on…Those of you, who respect Futura for his artworks in the same way I do, should take a look at this insightful interview! Via hypebeast.com.

“UrbanoFILMS” is a film series about urban planning, urban and architectural issues. It’s organized by the Berlin-based network for urban culture Urbanophil. In its 10th Issue, named “Beyond Streetart - New trends of an urban culture”, “UrbanoFILMS” will thematize street art, its influences in urban culture and the future trends. On display will be the documentary film “Mambo”, by Anne Buerger, about the Parisian street artists Mambo. Beforehand a member of the artists collective “POST” will present a selection of their street art projects. ...

Two week ago, Chris Weeks published his street photography documentation series, which is simply named “Street Photography: Documenting the Human Condition”. The three parts of this documentation give an insight into the manner of taking photos in the urban, public space and tries to get to the bottom of how street photography changed the view of seeing the world around us. “I think I started to forget things and […] when I’m taking a picture of something it helps me not to forget. I start to shoot a lot. I started to shoot people […] I just need to save it somewhere. An dif you have a photo you can also share it to others. That’s a good thing about it. You just share, what’s happening in your world, what’s happening around […]. So I think, everybody who takes street pictures has their own view of it.” (Severin Koller, photographer) ...

“Combo - A Collaborative Animation” is a new and amazing motion painting animation done by famous street artists, painters and filmmakers Blu and David Ellis. It’s one of their artworks for the urban art festival “Fame” in Grottaglie, Italy. Blu and David Ellis combine in this action the interesting location of an old, abandoned house, a lot paint and their inspiring creativity to a synthesis of the arts, which can only be viewed in this video. I love it!

Attention! I recently got an e-mail by Claire from Babelgum Metropolis, who wrote about a great creative video competition in which you have the chance to win $5,000 for your street art video: “We have just launched the Metropolis Art Prize offering artists the chance to upload a video of their art to win $20,000 and get their work displayed on giant monitors in Times Square. There is also special Street Art award of $5,000. (Although Street Art is still eligible for the Grand Prize) ...

Do you know the skateboarding documentation “Freedom Of Space”? I read about it some days ago and thought, it’s a bit dated, but who cares?! When most people think of the word environment, say think of rivers, mountains and lakes - the natural environment. But for most of us, our environment is quite different. (The introduction) Freedom Of Space is a very interesting film, by Steve Olpin and Tim Irvin, about skateboard culture in public space. It has a look at the street skaters and their social and political conflict with the urban environment and publicity. ...

When I think of São Paulo, I have mainly Pixação in my mind. What I didn’t know until I watched this video is, that the urban trend sport Parkour becomes more and more popular in the Brazil Metropolis. “Samparkour” is an almost 7 minutes long short film, which was part of the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival 2009 (LABRFF) and impresses with great pictures and impressions. It reveals the city of São Paulo under the look of Parkour. ...

“Into The Void” by “The Shadow Conspiracy” is a great BMX documentary with a lot of violent street action. Well-known riders like Owain Clegg, Alistair Whitton, Dropsy, Bjoern Elvering, Niki Kroft and Johnny Devlin are shown by different camera angles while riding through urban landscapes and having a lot of fun. My friend from bigot.net recently found a powerful video clip about BMX action by Johnny Devlin. ...