Here’s the moment none of you have been waiting for…
GRL: The Complete First Season will make its NYC premiere for PopRally at the Museum of Modern Art on May 4th @ 8PM + PARTY after the flick with Javelin and special, special guests.
Get your tickets here before they sell-out.
SORRY! We sold-out. But the Complete First Season will be showing at BAM on Saturday, May 31st at midnight. Cost = Free!
Or download the torrent of the unofficial DVD here before we sell-out (our DVD is coming soon!).
Read the official press release for the movie here ( redacted by the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Graffiti ):
From their origins in
thetrashroom of a non-profit in Manhattanto their emergence astheinstigatorsof an international art movement,Graffiti Research Lab: The Complete First Season documents the adventures of an architect and an engineer who quit theirdayjobs todevelop high-tech tools for the art underground. The film follows the GRL and their network of graffiti artist collaborators (and commercial imitators) across four continents as they write on skyscrapers with lasers,mockadvertisers with homemade tools, get in trouble withThe Department of Homeland Securityand make activism fun again. Primarily using video footage from point-and-shoot digital cameras (âThe Pocket Schoolâ?) and found-content on the web, the movie’s visual style draws as much from the art of the power point presentation and viral media as conventional documentary cinema.Narrated by GRL co-founders, Roth and Powderly, The Complete First Season makes a humorousand insightfulargument forfree speech in public, open source in pop culture, the hacker spirit ingraffiti and notasking for permission in general.The filmwas premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008.Available 24/7 on The Pirate Bay.
– For more GRL @ the MoMA with NYC’s finest look here, leap there and go thither.
Thanks to Hobby Boulihan for the best movie poster art eva!
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