Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu 2022

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.

Cast:

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