ICE-Vision 10th Anniversary Edition: Style Wars

4 Sept. 24 Style Wars (Silver, 1983)

ICE-Vision 10th Anniversary Edition*: Style Wars (Silver, 1983)
Thursday, September 24 at 6 PM
Lamar Dodd School of Art Room S150

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Style Wars is the legendary hip-hop documentary and a timeless film classic, the indispensable record of a golden age of youthful creativity and exploding hip hop subculture.

Directed by Tony Silver, and produced by Tony Silver and photographer Henry Chalfant, Style Wars was awarded the Grand Prize for Documentaries at the Sundance Film Festival in 1984. With the abridged one-hour broadcast premiere of Style Wars on PBS and Britain’s Channel Four in 1984, the world received its first full immersion into the phenomenon that had taken over New York City.

The urban landscape had been physically transformed by graffiti artists, who invented a new visual language to express both their individuality, and the voice of their community. Meanwhile, MC’s, DJ’s and B-boys were rocking the city with new sounds and new moves, as street corner breakdance battles became performance art.

*ICE-Vision 2006 selection by Mark Callahan