Downtown 81
Chazen Museum of Art 750 University Ave., Madison, Wisconsin 53706
press release: USA | 2000 | 35mm | 75 min.
Director: Edo Bertoglio
Cast: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Deborah Harry, Fab 5 Freddie
Filmed in 1981, left incomplete due to money problems, and assembled for release in 2000, Downtown 81 follows rising artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in NYC trying to move a painting while hustling for a place to sleep. Intended as a record of the bombed-out Bohemia of lower Manhattan, this collaboration between Basquiat, Swiss photographer Bertogilo, and writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien became a window on a lost world of life on the margins and crazy creative ferment.
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