Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Tamra Davis's Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010) is showing from January 9 - February 8, 2018 in the United Kingdom.In 1986 Tamra Davis, still in the first half of her twenties and working at an La art Gallery, interviewed the artist, her friend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. By then Basquiat, at just 25, had established himself as an exciting and iconoclastic new voice of the Us art world. A friend and collaborator of Andy Warhol’s, he was in the vanguard—just two years later, however, he died aged 27 of a heroin overdose. At the time too distraught to do anything with the footage, the film Davis had shot of her friend which comprised not just the interviews but saw him busy at work in his studio—Basquiat had been prolific—was locked away in a drawer. In 2008, though, while speaking to curators of...
- 1/24/2018
- MUBI
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