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"We have the capacity
to surpass the genetically programmed limitations of our ancestors,
if we can shift into a new frame of reference." --Bruce Rawles, Sacred Geometry
BWP has just releleased a "work in progress" Teaser Promo
Reel of Filmmaker Bob Bryan's
New Documentary GV7 RANDOM URBAN STATIC
exploring the exciting world of Spoken Word.
GV7 features
the following Artists: Vejea Jennings, Eric Haber, J.Walker, Sekou (tha Misfit), Bridget Gray,
Nicolas Lopez, Natalie Patterson,
GaKnew Roxwel, Poetri, Jessica Healy, Mollie Angelheart, Tim'm T. West,
Rachel Kann, Hunter Lee Hughes,
Common Ground (Natalie Patterson & Mollie Angelheart), & The
Lindz.
The GRAFFITI VERITE' Volumes 1
- 6DOCUMENTARY
Series (including GV6
THE ODYSSEY)
are
NOW AVAILABLE for immediate
NETFLIX
ONLINE RENTAL (Worldwide
rental distribution - DVD's delivered
directly to your home)
"Wow wow wow... Great job!" --Rod Bradley, Filmmaker, Poet
"I really appreciated the way the narrative
flowed throughout the presentation. It was captivating--and my friends
thought so as well.". --Askew, Poet
"...In this 72 minute documentary, 31 Poets drop their egos and provide
candid commentary on such subjects as a defining poetry, motivations, forms, and processes for writing. The general
consensus being that through a 'search for self' and 'artistic discipline,' poetry offers a way of 'bleeding out' toxic
infections (through a good ol' no2) and cleansing them with bleach. (complete review) ---Deidre Elizabeth, Poetry Editor for Erosha
& Verse Libre Quarterly More GV6 Reviews
IT'S DONE!
The complex and tortuous road to completion
for Bob Bryans' long awaited opus on
Contemporary Poetry has finally come to a quiet end.
PRESS RELEASE
GRAFFITI VERITE’ 6 (GV6) THE ODYSSEY: POETS, PASSION & POETRY
"Poetry
is life and the avoidance of it, is Death!!! " ---Steve Goldman, Poet /
Author
THE CANON OF THE LONE RANGER Sybaritic
Press
Graffiti
Verite' explores the underground graffiti scene of urban Los Angeles.
The documentary interviews 24 graffiti artists and features footage of
their bold, colorful outdoor work. The interviewees draw a connection between
their work and ancient hieroglyphics and cave paintings and also describe
graffiti art as a subversive means of counter-programming the culture.
After all, graffiti art on walls and fences contends with equally large
advertising billboards, and strives to convey something separate from commercialism.
Painting a fresh picture of graffiti enthusiasts, the documentary annihilates
the image of the graffiti vandal and introduces the graffiti artist.
~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide
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Movie Details On
GRAFFITI VERITE'
2: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION?
Type: Documentary
Rating: NR
Running Time: 57 minutes
Directed by: Bob Bryan
PLOT DESCRIPTION
The follow-up to Graffiti
Verite, an award-winning documentary about urban artists, Graffiti
Verite 2: Freedom of Expression? picks
up where the first documentary left off. Filmmakers travel the streets,
meeting artists who beautify dirty and dangerous neighborhoods by transforming
concrete walls into vibrant murals, and musicians who turn their street
experience into catchy harmonies and bold raps. The program features music
by B-Boys, DMG & Daddy V, Black Mikey, the Psycho Realm, and others.
~ Betsy Boyd, All Movie Guide
GRAFFITI VERITE' DOCUMENTARIES ARE NOW AVAILABLE
FOR NETFLIX ONLINE
RENTAL
(DVD rentals delivered to your home)
Hollywood,
California..., BWP Press...It has just been announced
that the
entire catalogue of Bob Bryans' Multi Award-Winning Documentary Series
GRAFFITI VERITE' 1 - 5 has been picked
up by NETFLIX
for worldwide rental distribution. The Graffiti Verite' Series NOW
joins other outstanding Award-Winning Documentary titles like:
Super
Size Me, Riding Giants, Born Into Brothels, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster,
Fahrenheit 9/11, Outfoxed: Murdoch's War on Journalism, The Fog of War,
Control Room and Jerry Seinfeld: Comedian.
And In
another bit of good news, the GV Series Videogram Licensing Rights
has been just purchased by a major DVD Distribution Company in Greece,
for DVD replication in that territory (translation into Greek).
Home
Media Retailing Magazine formerly
known as "Video
Store Magazine" profiles filmmaker
Bob Bryan and the DVD Release of the Graffiti Verite' Series.
* National Educational Media Network "Gold
Apple Awards" * Council of International Non-Theatrical
Events "Golden Eagle Award" *
Accolade Competition "Award of Excellence"
* 2003 Urban Independent Music Awards "Best
Documentary" * AVC Regional CINDY "Silver
CINDY Award"* Honolulu
Underground Film Festival "Best Documentary" * Colorlab Award "Outstanding
Documentary"*
The Communicator Awards"Award
of Distinction" * Texas
A&M Film Festival "Audience Choice
Winner for Documentary" *
Worldfest Film Festival "Political Issues
Category" * The
Freaky Film Festival"Best
Documentary" *
Telluride Indiefest "Best
Documentary Award" *
Chicago Film Festival
"Silver Award" * Videographer
Awards "2001 Videographer Award"
* Accolade Competition "Art
Instruction Award Winner" * 2003 Urban
Independent Music Awards "Soundtrack of the Year"
*
Multi-award winning Filmmaker
Bob Bryan takes his camera on the road (in search of Hip-Hop) to the heartland
of America. "I figured if Hip-Hop exists here, then it's pretty
much everywhere!"
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"Graffiti
Verite' is both interesting and enlightening.
I understand your enthusiasm and dedication to this project and wish you
the best of success."
--Jeffrey Katzenberg, Dreamworks, SKG
Executive Producer: Shrek 2,
Chicken Run, The Road to El Dorado, The Prince of Egypt
The
Graffiti Verite' Documentary Video Series
"Unearth
the truth about the historical relevance of the Graffiti Art Movement,
set against the backdrop of today's urban landscape."
"Appropriate and useful Classroom material...." --Committee for The Los Angeles County Office of Education
”This
well produced examination by the artists who create it will add a
new dimension to Art Classes and to Library Video Collections.
We highly recommend its use in High School and College Art Classes..." - School Library Journal
GV4:
Basic Techniques for Creating Graffiti Art
on Walls and Canvas
A
NEW FILM BY
AWARD
WINNING FILMMAKER
BOB
BRYAN
GV4pulls you into the Underground Art form
by showing the concepts, aesthetics, techniques, and style needed to complete
a perfect semi " Wild Style "masterpiece (on a Legal Wall)
as well as Aerosol Art on Canvas. GV4 is a "must-have-Video" for
Art Instructors, Art Students, Galleries, Museums, Libraries and Educational
Institutions who've been bewildered at Spray Can Technique. As a "unique
lesson plan," no other program exists in the marketplace of ideas,
that can compare to the inspiration, skill and intelligence of GV4.
"Despite the still
prevailing view that graffiti is not an art but urban blight, GV4
reveals just how mainstream
graffiti art has become since this documentary series was first released
(Video Reviews,
LJ 9/1/96). Winner of international graffiti competitions, featured
graffiti artist "Sano" demonstrates his artistic process and techniques,first
by drawing elements of a piece on a sketchpad and then donning a protective
mask and transferring his expression to a legal Graffiti Pit in Los Angeles's
Venice Beach area..." (continued)
Vol.
18 - The Video Review Magazine for Libraries-No.4
"The
fourth entry in the Graffiti Verite' series (see review of Graffiti
Verite’ {VL
- 5/96} covers the basics of becominng a graffiti artist, with instruction
by graffiti artist SANO in the techniques of sketching, outlining and fading,
highlighting and shadowing, “can control," 3D effects, and more. Declaring
his absolute love of the genre, SANO sketches ideas on a pad while sitting
in the sun, and talks about translating his vision onto the wall..."
(continued)
"The
term graffiti brings to mind vandals spraying subway walls with four-letter
words.Viewers may be surprised to learn that not only is this a legitimate
art form, but there are contests (the narrator is the two-time winner of
The International
Graffiti Art Competition), legal graffiti walls (one in Los Angeles
is shown), and a variety of techniques and procedures used to produce top
quality aerosol art...."
(continued)
New
Perspectives on Politics, Culture, Media and Life
"Good news for all
you artists craving to vandalize your city walls with aerosol art - the
new installment of Graffiti Verite' is
in ! Graffiti Verite' 4, by
award winning filmmaker Bob Bryan, captures the genius of spray can artist
SANO. SANO informs us that all art is a personal experience - and that
through his art he wants the general community to understand him..." (continued)
"The
world is a canvas and I'm expressing my thoughts on your walls! " I recently
had the opportunity to peep out Graffiti
Verite Volume 4, a 68 minute documentary
on the art commonly referred to as graffiti. A well laid out movie starts
out with two time winner of the International
Graffiti Art Competition SANO writing some of his ideas in his book
and explaining to us how you start with the concept of your piece and doing
a ruff outline of it...." (continued)
“You
know graffiti art has hit the mainstream when you go over to your mom's
to use her VCR, pop in a graffiti instructional video, and she's just as
keen to learn spray-can techniques as you are. "Shove over," says my mom,
settling onto the couch beside me, "this looks interesting.....(continued)"
"Two-time
winner of the International
Graffiti Art CompetitionSANO teaches you the basics of the
Graffiti Art Form. The GV4Graffiti
video presented by moviemaker Bob Bryan gives you a refreshing insight
into the Underground Art Form. SANO guides you patiently through
both the basic and the more complex spray techniques for both walls and
canvases..." (continued)
”One
can watch the instructional video Graffiti
Verite’ 4, featuring award-winning
graffito Sano, completely guilty-free. That’s because Sano and video director
Bob Bryan have ensured that this is a nice, entirely within the confines
of-the-law production. The
video begins with Sano delivering the voice over, “I can’t even tell you
what I’d be doing outside of aerosol art. Aerosol art saved my life.
It gave me a foundation and a focus..." (continued)
"The “GV”
of the title stands for Graffiti Verité,
Bob Bryan’s eye-popping endeavor to document the world of aerosol art.
On his website, GraffitiVerité.com,
Bryan quotes from Bertolt Brecht: “Art is not a mirror held up to reality,
but a hammer with which to shape it.”
Through Bryan’s GV series of
instructional videotapes, the outsider can glimpse a part of this shaping
which is commonly dismissed and (in some cases erroneously) regarded as
vandalism. Bryan’s subject in GV4
is the spray can artist Sano (at work in the photo to the right and below),
who points out that the concrete he works on here is indeed legal. The
Graffiti Pit walls in Venice, California, are approximately sixty feet
long by
six feet high, and are open for community expression..." (continued)
"While theGraffiti
Verite'series is not easily accessible to people in our
part of the world, GV4
somehow found it's way to the Out4Fame reviewing desk. Unlike other documentaries
centered around Graffiti such as StyleWars,
GV4 does not educate the
general public about the culture of Graffiti but instead provides an insight
into the process of creating graffiti art, as demonstrated by LA Graf artist
SANO. This demonstration is divided into two parts, the first being the
creation of a large scale semi-wild style piece at a legal wall in Venice
beach...." (continued)
-Reviewed by AKE
MARE
139 GV4 REVIEW
“Regarding GV4,
I liked it allot ! It was timely that an instructional tape would
be produced not only to instruct but inform viewers of the broad range
of issues involved with doing a production. Sano is a really talented artist
and he gave a good mention of artistic influences which reflect well on
the tape, because it offers potential artists an opportunity to broaden
their scope of creative influences. The irony is of course, where you shot
it. I thought that spot was hot and could no longer be used.
We are in a time
where writers share more of their resources and talents more openly; that
open tutelage was the essence of subway graffiti back in the day. Now with
so many spray can brands, tips, styles and reasons to write your name on
the wall, your tape provides still another resource for writers to learn
from. Props to you and SANO.”
-Mare 139 (Graffiti
Artist and Designer of the BET Awards)
Writer / Field Producer,
StyleWars DVD
@149st
(The Bronx)
“I just got
to sit down and see it (GV4)
on Sunday night. It was great. I really enjoyed it! At my
site I get allot of mail each month from University Students, Professors,
young Graff heads, fine artists, housewives and people from all walks of
life, asking questions regarding the creative process and the technical
aspects of creating a piece. Now I will refer them directly to GV4.
It will be a great resource. It was great that in addition to being a talented
artist, Sano is also very articulate. You did a great job of capturing
the man and his art.”
“This is the fourth
film in the Graffiti Verite’ series
by Los Angeles based director Bob Bryan. Bryan documents the process of
a single artist creating a work of art. Bryan reveals Ohio artist SANO's
step-by- step creative and technical processes from concept and sketch
through completed art work. What also emerges from the film is an intimate
portrait of SANO as an artist. This film is an essential resource
for educators, students, artists and anyone who has been curious about
the technical process of creating graffiti art paintings.” Peace!
Thinking Outside The Box office
- An Article in Rolling
Out Magazine featuring
Indie Filmmaker Tim Greene and Documentary Filmmaker
Bob Bryan
written by Rodney
Carmichael
The
Graffiti Art Therapy Research
Project (The research for this paper is
based partially upon in-depth interviews with Graffiti Artists
appearing in Bob Bryan's Graffiti
Verite' Documentary Video Series )
This study investigates the therapeutic
effectiveness of using art therapy in conjunction with
graffiti art and culture in the
treatment of socially-defiant adolescents who have been detained
and / or put on probation for defacing
public
property with graffiti. A
group of seven boys will participate in a six week Graffiti Art Therapy
group facilitated by an art therapy
graduate student and a legitimate graffiti artist / youth worker.
(continued) The Art Therapy Research was conducted
by Ezekiel- Eric Rothman and Janice Hoshino,
Ph.D., ATR-BC
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Reviews of the Graffiti Verite' DVD Series
Graffiti
Verite': Read the Writing on the Wall (DVD) Graffiti
Verite' explores the underground graffiti scene of urban Los Angeles.
The documentary
interviews 24
graffiti
artists and features footage of their bold, colorful outdoor work.
The interviewees
draw a connection
between
their work and ancient hieroglyphics
and cave paintings and also describe graffiti art as a subversive
means
of counter-programming the culture. After all, graffiti art on walls
and fences contends with equally large
advertising
billboards, and strives to convey something separate from commercialism.
Painting a fresh picture of
graffiti
enthusiasts, the documentary annihilates the image of the graffiti vandal
and introduces the graffiti artist.
~
Betsy Boyd,
All Movie Guide
Graffiti
Verite': Read the Writing on the Wall(DVD) This fresh and honest documentary
dispels myths about the impact of graffiti art in American urban culture.
Interviews with East Coast
and West Coast graffiti artists discuss the impact of hip-hop culture and
how important
the role of graffiti plays
as a positive creative force for young people, while at the