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On the concrete canvas of Los Angeles, muralists and graffiti artists grapple with the city for the right to write on the walls.

Award-winning (Delphic Art Award Selection 2011) documentary, directed by Oliver Riley-Smith, cinematography by Qianbaihui Yang, edited and produced by Gavin Garrison.

Huge thanks to SPARC - go to savelamurals.org to find out more about the fight to protect the city's murals.

For info about the film email ollyriley@hotmail.com.

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  • victor wortmann 3 months ago
    Congrats, man. Amazing work.
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  • Geoill plus 3 months ago
    Nice video! Check out the mural locations on murallocator.org
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  • Joe Moya plus 3 months ago
    very nicely done documentary
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  • Weldon Byrns plus 3 months ago
    Really nice work. Sad to see this happen...
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  • Elsi Diop 3 months ago
    "one day two style can work together, why not they don't connect...we can be connected"
  • Billy Batson 3 months ago
    They don't connect because people are made to be d*cks by default these days?

    Most graffiti these days is just squiggly lines without any sense of direction or content (even though that kind of reflects what state our society is in).
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  • A.H. Scott 3 months ago
    Wow! Nice documentary. The colors and flavor of those murals truly come to life. Wonderful...:)
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  • "Statistic 101" plus 3 months ago
    Damn this is great!
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  • MarcoFromHouston 3 months ago
    very good work
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  • Mighty Productive plus 3 months ago
    Love the biker transition at 3:40.
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  • Captain Awesome 3 months ago
    Sadly that connection would never happen. There's a huge difference between "Taggers" and "Piecers". Taggers are the fucking hoodrats who scrawl their inane bullshit onto anything without any artistic merit or respect. Piecers are the ones who respect art and their space and do the giant colorful pieces you do see.

    Taggers for years have been the ones who constantly destroy these beautiful artworks for the sake of displaying their idiotic crew/gang names. These murals are the reason why LA is an art landmark and not because of your hood shit. The LA Four were the original gangsta's of the mural art scene in East LA and I was thankful to have grown up around their works and inspiration.
  • Santiago 3 months ago
    u cant blame taggers, its the root of graffiti as itself, but there will be still stupid people who dont respect others work.. i think this topic deserves more then 6min, but i consider it as an tipping point for change..its sad that those wonderfull murals r gone
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  • Myriam Di Carlo 3 months ago
    it is sad that they can not cohexistir both ... because both the mural and graffiti art are expressions of popular ... great work of the painter Loza, beautiful murals
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  • William Gallego 3 months ago
    Beautiful murals ruined. Wow! Good doc!
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  • KEVO plus 3 months ago
    I love LA, I miss LA
    Great job
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  • Ozan Akinci 3 months ago
    Beautiful in all it's content!
    This should be made into a feature documentary!
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  • collesalario 3 months ago
    Vera Arte!!!
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  • Uraninum 3 months ago
    Really nice !
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  • Ray Roman 2 months ago
    Wow. Really great work!
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