Graffiti (1985)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | graffiti |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | Spanish |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 28 minutes |
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| Director | Matthew Patrick |
| script |
Randee Russell Matthew Patrick |
| production | Dianna Costello |
| music | Robert Randles |
| camera | Zoli Vidor |
| cut | Stephen Mark |
| occupation | |
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Graffiti is an American short film directed by Matthew Patrick in 1985.
action
In a dictatorship the soldiers fight all non-conformism and patrol the streets every day to remove critical graffiti from the walls. A man paints caricatures on the city walls every night and watches the reaction of passers-by the next day. Drawing is not without its dangers, so sometimes it just barely escapes the soldiers. One day he notices that his black and white caricature heads have been supplemented by colored drawings. He becomes curious, at night draws the beginning of the animal's body in the same place and lies in wait. After a while a woman appears, marking women's legs on the body. The man follows the woman into an empty building, where she makes more drawings on the walls.
The next day, the man leads the woman through graffiti into a cul-de-sac, where he made a drawing of an animal on the wall with a raised champagne glass. He also attached a flower to the wall. He observes the joy of the woman who takes the flower and paints herself as a cat on the second chair. Suddenly soldiers appear. The woman in the cul-de-sac cannot escape and is brutally beaten under the horrified gaze of the man and is finally taken away. The man is desperate, crushes his chalk and lets himself go in the next few days. Again and again he hears the screams of the woman in his dreams. One night he goes out on the street. He discovers a small graffito of the woman that was overlooked when it was painted over. Next to the picture, which shows a crying heart, lies a packet with the colored chalk that the woman always used. The man gets to work. The next morning, passers-by discover a large-format, colored picture in which the heart is touched by a person coming from heaven.
production
Graffiti is based on a short story by Julio Cortázar . The film was made at the Center for Advances Film Studies of the American Film Institute . Danelle Hand created the costumes, Julia Riva created the film . The film premiered in 1985 and ran the following year at the Chicago International Film Festival .
Awards
Graffiti was nominated in 1986 for an Oscar in the Best Short Film category. In 1986 he won the Gold Hugo of the Chicago International Film Festival for Best Short Film and the Golden Gate Award of the San Francisco International Film Festival , also for Best Short Film.
Web links
- Graffiti in the Internet Movie Database (English)