The Writing on the Wall (1986)

  • NR
  • 12/11/1986 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 28m

Overview

"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.'

Cast

Too Sweet Hakeem's headshot

Too Sweet Hakeem

Phil Danzig's headshot

Phil Danzig

John Carlin's headshot

John Carlin

Roberta Crane's headshot

Roberta Crane

Henry Chalfant's headshot

Henry Chalfant

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