{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Street Art"],"cover":{"alt":"London Street Art: Brick Lane","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/london-street-art-brick-lane/london-street-art.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2011-02-22T11:40:03Z","description":"“Brick Lane in Art” is an upcoming documentary about London’s street art by film-maker Shafiur Rahman, who wants to portrait one of the epicentres for urban creativity in Europe...","html":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStreet Art Documentary\u003c/em\u003e | London’s Brick Lane is something like the epicentre for creativity and young, modern life-style in London. Especially around the old Truman Brewery with its galleries, bars and markets a lot of the otherwise shy London street art can be found.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith his upcoming street art documentary \u003cem\u003e“Brick Lane in Art”\u003c/em\u003e film-maker \u003cstrong\u003eShafiur Rahman\u003c/strong\u003e wants to sketch a creative portrait of this Europe-wide well-know street and its surrounding area. Therefore he interviewed several more or less famous street artists and other protagonists in in London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI wanted to shoot a social documentary which would frame the street, its life, and the complex web in which it operates. I wanted to hear the area’s official stories. And of course the other side of those stories. I started filming in the fall of 2009. Seems a long time ago. And so this little trailer is a quiet announcement that we are serious about the final edit now\u0026hellip;\n(Shafiur Rahman)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI really like that trailer and especially the statement by Grems. He’s totally right - I learned that in the three month I spent in London last year - when he says, that London is good \u003cem\u003e“for street art money, because good street art is in Berlin now”\u003c/em\u003e! So if you want to make money as a street artist, you have to gain a foothold in the British capital but if you like to feel and see the pure street art you have to come to Berlin\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m looking forward to watch the entire documentary!\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\n*Street Art Documentary* | London’s Brick Lane is something like the epicentre for creativity and young, modern life-style in London. Especially around the old Truman Brewery with its galleries, bars and markets a lot of the otherwise shy London street art can be found.\n\nWith his upcoming street art documentary *“Brick Lane in Art”* film-maker **Shafiur Rahman** wants to sketch a creative portrait of this Europe-wide well-know street and its surrounding area. Therefore he interviewed several more or less famous street artists and other protagonists in in London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid.\n\n\u003e I wanted to shoot a social documentary which would frame the street, its life, and the complex web in which it operates. I wanted to hear the area’s official stories. And of course the other side of those stories. I started filming in the fall of 2009. Seems a long time ago. And so this little trailer is a quiet announcement that we are serious about the final edit now...\n\u003e (Shafiur Rahman)\n\nI really like that trailer and especially the statement by Grems. He’s totally right - I learned that in the three month I spent in London last year - when he says, that London is good *“for street art money, because good street art is in Berlin now”*! So if you want to make money as a street artist, you have to gain a foothold in the British capital but if you like to feel and see the pure street art you have to come to Berlin...\n\nI’m looking forward to watch the entire documentary!\n","tags":["Documentary Film","Interview","Portraiture","Street Art London"],"title":"London Street Art: Brick Lane","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/london-street-art-brick-lane/"}