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DOWNTOWN ’81
Opens on May 11
Director: Edo Bertoglio Run Time: 72 min. Release Year: 2001
Starring: Anna Shroeder, Debbie Harry, Giorgio Giomelsky, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Saul Williams
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.