SMOKESCREENS
Sunday May 4th, 2008
Bomb It clips play and Jon Reiss, director, in attendance in Northridge, CA
Hookah Source
9116 Reseda Blvd
Northridge, CA
91324
8pm to 1am/ 18+ with ID/ No cover
LIVE BROADCAST AT: www.myspace.com/hiphopsmoke
The NY Daily News did an interview with the director of BOMB IT. It also posted one of our fresh webisodes. Check ‘em out!
Jon Reiss‘ latest documentary, “Bomb It,” explores the controversial subculture of graffiti through themes of public space, freedom of speech, corporate advertising, and social and political issues. The film visits cities from around the world - Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Barcelona, Cape Town, Sao Pãulo and Tokyo - and delves into how writers have incorporated graffiti into each of their varying cultures as a means of expression, protest, and beautification.
Read the NY DAILY NEWS interview with Jon Reiss here
Here’s the Daily News Review for BOMB IT
We also got the pick of the week in the Chicago Reader!
Genuinely global, multicultural, and multilingual in its urban perspectives, this lively documentary features graffiti artists talking about their work and illustrates their discourse with images shot in Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Cape Town, Sao Paolo, Tijuana, and Tokyo. Filmmaker Jon Reiss also occasionally gives voice to people trying to eradicate graffiti. The relentless quick cutting and pop soundtrack are counterbalanced by the artists’ personalities and sociopolitical credos. Unlike Michael Glawogger’s more visionary Megacities (1998), this offers neither city symphonies nor overarching theses, but as the title suggests, the theme of rebellion predominates.
Don’t forget to check us out in NYC and Chicago! Here’s our screening info:
4/25-5/1 New York, NY Cinema Village www.cinemavillage.com
4/25-5/1 Chicago, IL Facets Cinematheque www.facets.org
We also got a Metromix review:
One subject points out that while we expose ourselves to commercials by turning on the TV, we don’t necessarily ask to see billboard advertising just by leaving the house. Raise your hand if you’ve never thought about it that way, but are kind of annoyed now that you have!
SWEET CITY WOMAN
Queen Andrea, gmo$, Toofly, Muck, Alice Mizrachi, Gillian Goldstein
Fuse Gallery
93 2nd Avenue, NYC
(between 5th and 6th streets)
May 3rd - May 31st, 2008
Opening reception: May 3rd, 7pm - 10pm
We got a few more reviews from our NYC screenings:
From This Week in New York:
“Reiss examines the never-ending debate over whether graf is vandalism, rebellion, art, “all-out destruction,” “urban intervention,” “visual pollution,” “typographic terrorism,” or the unstoppable expression of youth culture. The writers, some of whom keep their faces hidden, argue that graffiti is all about taking back public space, from buses to billboards and buildings to subway trains, asserting one’s identity and fighting the power; while one bomber states, “I tag, therefore I am,” another states that “art must serve a social cause”…
Read the full review here (search for Bomb It)
From the NYC Movie Guru:
“Regardless of where you stand on the issue of graffiti, you’ll be thoroughly entertained by Bomb It. Number of times I checked my watch: 0″
Read the rest of the review here
You can still catch a screening of Bomb It at the Cinema Village in New York until May 1st.
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