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The Universe of Keith Haring

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A Film By: Christina Clausen
Format: DVD
Language(s): English with French subtitles

90 min. with 20min. of bonus features

2008

Price: 298


Everybody knows his drawings and his stylized silhouettes, yet few people know his name. The most successful pop/graffiti artist of the 80s is still all around us - in hospitals, churches, casinos, gardens, walls, galleries, posters, tee-shirts - and in our memories.
As a social phenomenon who revolutionized contemporary art over a single decade, Haring was a generous artist who brought art to the people on the street and also a friend of such celebrities as Madonna, Yoko Ono, Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and David LaChapelle.

A casualty of the AIDS epidemic at only 31, Haring had already blazed a trail far beyond his American birthplace, from Paris to Australia, Rio de Janeiro to Tokyo.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Haring’s birth, Christina Clausen delivers an incredibly touching portrait of the "Little Prince of New York City." Thanks to amazing archival footage, vivid interviews and music hits of the 80s, we relive an era of intellectual and sexual freedom, eccentricities and insane creativity.


Producers:
French Connection Films, Overcom, Absolute Film, AVRO

Partners:
La Fondation Keith Haring and YLE Teema

Festivals:
Rome 2007, Brasilia 2007, FIFA Montréal 2008, Tribeca New-York 2008, Outfest Los Angeles 2008, Festival Gay & Lesbien de Paris 2008, Newport Beach 2008

Aired On:
Cinéma (USA, UK, Germany, Canada...), VH1/Logo (USA), AVRO (Netherlands), YLE Teema (Finland), NRK (Norway), SVT (Sweden), Sky Arts (UK and Ireland), TV3 (Spain) et en DVD (France, Benelux, Germany, USA)