
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
Self (Archive footage)
James Noël
Narrator (voice)
Dieter Buchhart
Self - Expository Comissioner

Kevin Bray
Self - Director
Pablo Calogero
Self - Musician

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac
Self - Artist
Al Diaz
Self - Graphic artist
Jeffrey Deitch
Self - Gallery director
Alvin Fields
Self - Singer composer
Lizzie Himmel
Self - Photographer

Michael Holman
Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
Eric Justin Johnson
Self - Director

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