This documentary traces the graffiti arts movement back to paintings by Picasso, and on through the 1970s in New York City. BOMB IT combines guerilla footage of artists at work around the globe with fresh perspectives on the art form.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Featurette: "Behind-the-Scenes"
Audio Commentary: Filmmaker Commentary
Bonus Footage: Outtakes
Distributor Notes: BOMB IT is a wild ride into the heart of the global graffiti culture where the love of art and ego clashes explosively with law and order. On top of a fresh soundtrack of punk, hip-hop and funk, this high-octane film explores the many manifestations of "bombing."
Through grainy night vision footage and raw interviews, the punks, ghetto Picassos, taggers, misfits, and political dissidents demonstrate in no uncertain terms why they risk arrest and injury to express themselves and reflect their society with spraypaint and marker. The rough-and-tumble cast of BOMB IT hails from New York and Tokyo, Berlin and Barcelona, Capetown, and Sao Paulo, with each city boasting its own unique style and form of grafitti.
From the pioneers of bombing who painted living museums on trains as they rolled between the Bronx and Brooklyn in New York to the underground artist who seeks the sublime painting in blue deep in the bowels of Sao Paulo's sewers, the artists in BOMB IT are fascinating studies in the power of art to disturb, protest, and enlighten.
Source: New Video Group, Inc.
Director of Photography
Tracy Wares: Producer/director of photography
Music Supervisor
David Garcia: Music supervisor
Review 1:
"BOMB IT is a remarkably compact and engaging overview of the history and ideology of this urban outlaw art form."
Source: Los Angeles Times
06/06/2008
Review 2:
"[A] lively, sure-handed film....It widens the spectrum by taking a comprehensively international viewpoint."
Source: New York Times
04/25/2008