A night of psychedelic graffiti featuring the trippy short films of tape delay, and a screening of the lesser known classic forbidden rebels. With a conversation to follow with Mike Delmar and style master Sharp & Bob Harris via Zoom. Hosted by Sacha Jenkins.

Magic Bluebird (2024)
35 min
A journey back into the shadowy heart of early 70’s New York City, pure 70’s madness from the depths of Fear City. Through a hallucinatory blend of raw archival footage and vibrant animation, the viewer is pulled into a kaleidoscopic descent where gangs rule the night, neon signs flicker on the streets, and reality blurs into a fever dream of subway writing, music, and surreal visions.

Forbidden Rebels (1983)
29 min
by Rii Kanzaki with Bob Harris 1983
A lyric, impressionistic portrait of five New York City graffiti artist/writers in 1983. Filmed in the subways, streets and parks of New York, G-Man, Delta II, Sharp, Spin, and DEZ tell stories of their lives as young Black men, about their creative community, about style, about gaining respect, getting up, about survival, and about their aspirations and their dreams. Imagery combines documentary street realism with Image-Processed video’s painterly analog of a Krylon color spray. Video image processing by Rii Kanzaki at the Experimental Television Center/Owego, NY.