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BAMcinématek presents the U.S. theatrical premiere of Charlie Ahearn’s Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer, Aug 2—8.
In the infancy of hip-hop, Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz documented the pioneers of music and style who would launch an enduring worldwide phenomenon. Charlie Ahearn, the director of the seminal grafitti movie Wild Style, pays tribute to both Shabazz and those who defined hip-hop before it had definition. More than just vintage shots of kids rocking Puma Suedes, Kangols, and pin-striped Jordaches in Times Square and Fort Greene Park, Shabazz’s photographs have hundreds of (oftentimes tragic) stories behind them, and Ahearn’s Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer gives voice to these images with dozens of interviews with Shabazz himself, graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fred “Fab 5 Freddy” Brathwaite, legendary rapper KRS-One, and more. This vibrant portrait of the early years of hip-hop had its world premiere at BAMcinemaFest 2011.
The 7 p.m. screening on Friday, August 2 will feature an intro and Q&A with director Charlie Ahearn, film subject Jamel Shabazz, and graffiti pioneer and hip-hop historian Fab 5 Freddy, followed by a book-signing.
The film will run from August 2 though August 8 at the Peter Jay Sharp Building of BAM Rose Cinemas in Brooklyn.
We are giving away one pair of tickets to a showing of your choice. Simply email contests@birthplacemag.com and we will pick one winner at random by the end of Friday, August 2.