Synopsis

Downtown ’81 (2001)

Downtown 81 (2000)

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.
Edo Bertoglio
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Saul Williams, Anna Shroeder, Debbie Harry, Giorgio Giomelsky, Coati Mundi, Debi Mazar, George Quinones, Walter Steding, Steven Brown, Eszter Balint, Kid Creole, Fab 5 Freddy, Arto Lindsay, John Lurie, Michael Holman, Vincent Gallo, Ted Bafaloukos, Elliott Murphy, Amos Poe, ‘Lee’ George Quinones, Chris Stein, Kool Kyle, Cookie Mueller, Richard Weigand, Bradley Field
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