Graffiti Verite Read the writing on the wall

Product Description Director / Producer / Director of Photography, Bob Bryan has produced for BRYAN WORLD PRODUCTIONS an amazing new Multi-Award Winning Documentary that explores the eclectic world of Hip Hop and the urban Graffiti Artist. GRAFFITI VERITE' is a 45 minute groundbreaking Documentary that includes interviews and behind the scenes views of 24 of Los Angeles' most prolific and talented Graffiti Artists. GRAFFITI VERITE's conversations vary from comparative discussions on Graffiti's ancestral connection to Ritualistic Hieroglyphics and cave writings to discussions of Graffiti Art as a form of street-level propaganda and Public Art Gallery for the anonymous public. Graffiti Art succeeds as underground counter-programming which is aimed at the same target audience that the Powerful Madison Avenue Mass Media is directed at, albeit with a decidedly different message.... Graffiti Art has a contact visceral effect on its audience because Graf Art goes way beyond Art orderliness and conventions, expressing itself through complex design lettering patterns (wild-style), rude colors and strange characters. Graffiti Artists dare to communicate to us, by any means, despite the misconceptions and restrictions! Yet, paradoxically Graffiti Art is still all about Fame and Popularity. In GRAFFITI VERITE', a Graffiti Artist recalls that when he was in Grade school his teacher asked him What do you want to be when you grow up? His response, I want to be either a Terrorist or an Artist... GRAFFITI VERITE' is the first up close and personal expose' into the Graffiti Art World as experienced by 24 ARTISTS whose artistic tool of choice is the Spray can. I quickly discovered as I was shooting GRAFFITI VERITE', says Bob Bryan, & how serious and dedicated these Artists are about their work. The real truth about Graffiti Art completely destroys the old stereotyped image that Graffiti is only about vandalism and tag-banging. Nothing could be further from the truth! These inspired artists efforts are Art Intended, irregardless of whether or not they paint on a wall or a canvas. Bob Bryan, Director / Executive Producer / Director of Photography From Street Art to Gallery Art Showings GRAFFITI VERITE' (The truth about Graffiti) forces us to re-think about our Cultural Reality as well as to expose us to more cutting edge Graffiti Art than has even been seen before in one venue. GRAFFITI VERITE' is a must-see Video if you care at all about what's happening to our culture as well as to the inner world of our children. Ready or not, GRAFFITI ART is the next Great Art Movement after POP ART! Review BOB BRYAN: Cultural Programmer You have to understand something: Los Angeles, CA is Hollywood. We create software - programming - that programs people all over the world. Cultures are changed by what we create here. So says Bob Bryan, creator of 1995's Graffiti Verite' documentary on L.A.'s graffiti art. Bryan (who owns his own video production company and is a longtime Hollywood filmmaker/producer) should know. His stripped-down approach to the diversity of politics, age, class and philosophy within the & La-La writing scene has won him countless awards and acclaim the world over. Bryan got the idea for doing the documentary on graffiti art after meeting artist TOONZ one night in a Hollywood alley while the artist was working on a canvas for an opera. Shocked at what seemed to be an odd combination of ideas (graffiti, canvas and opera, Bryan began asking questions. What I found out was that truly these were artists and that the mediums they work on far exceeded the stereotypes. I found that they weren't criminals, vandals, or gangsters, but artists who had something to say. They had an art history and an aesthetic that I knew nothing about, and I thought that if I knew nothing about it, then there had to be a large number of people who knew nothing about it. I thought that it was valid in terms of what they were saying