In recent years there have been a plethora of films about graffiti released to slake the street art thirst of the burgeoning culture of cool surrounding the hypeworld. Of course everything started way back when with Style Wars, and most of the more recent films have fallen short of that high water mark. Enter Bomb It!, a film that explores the greater ideas involved in the street art movement, ideas like free space and personal expression and community. But even more than high-minded concepts like those the film just wants to explain why street art speaks to so many people. I’m looking forward to the release, and since I live nowhere near NYC I’ll be missing the premiere along with most of the country. I’ll cop it on DVD when it drops. You’d be wise to do the same.
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