Wild Style, (Still), 1983.
£10/£5 members & concessions
Join us for a screening of Wild Style, the cult film that inspired Paulo Nimer Pjota’s practice, presented alongside his current exhibition Encantados.
Wild Style resonates with Pjota’s own beginnings, coming to painting through graffiti and hip-hop culture as a teenager. His approach borrows from the sampling and remixing practices of hip-hop, the same creative energy the film captures at its source.
Wild Style (dir. Charlie Ahearn, 1983, 1h 22min) is a groundbreaking hybrid of fiction and documentary about the birth of hip-hop and graffiti culture in early 1980s New York, placing real-life pioneers — Grandmaster Flash, Busy Bee, The Fantastic Five, The Cold Crush Brothers and The Rock Steady Crew — at its heart. The film follows Zoro (the graffiti artist Lee Quiñones), navigating the streets of the South Bronx at the birth of a cultural revolution.
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