As old school graffiti passes the can to tech-driven graff 2.0 — tagged “Post-Graffitism” — some great documentaries of this kid-can-wall-art-byte history have been cropping up to update Charlie Ahearn’s classic, Wild Style. SprayMasters, which World Premieres at MoMA NYC on Wednesday, February 13th, actually caught up with the infamous Lee Quinoñes, who played Zoro for Ahearn’s film back in 1983. Back then, Quinoñes was still a Puerto-Rican punk teen trailing political paint across NYC’s subways. Now, his work appears in the Whitney. Zephyr, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000 round out the living legends who director Kirchheimer asks to reflect on their 1970s teen years, the bombing they’ve done since, and what, exactly, the heck is going on with graffiti as a global medium. They would know, after all – they helped create it. Beautifully shot, the documentary includes never-before-seen footage from Kirchheimer’s 1980 cult classic, Stations of the Elevated, and he’ll be on hand for a Q&A after Wednesday’s screening.

Source: TRACE blog