The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for identity, by his Haitian and Puerto Rican family origins and by a founding trip to Africa. To portray this major painter of the 20th century, who died in 1988 at only 27 years old, is also to evoke the place of black American artists in the conservative and racist America of the Reagan years.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
as Self (Archive footage)
James Noël
as Narrator (voice)
Dieter Buchhart
as Self - Expository Comissioner
Kevin Bray
as Self - Director
Pablo Calogero
as Self - Musician
Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
as Self - Artist
Al Diaz
as Self - Graphic artist
Jeffrey Deitch
as Self - Gallery director
Alvin Fields
as Self - Singer composer
Lizzie Himmel
as Self - Photographer
Michael Holman
as Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
Eric Justin Johnson
as Self - Director
