Events

Graffiti on Film and Graffiti on the streets: Artist Talk on the Culture, Lifestyle and the Art of Graffiti-Writing.
Filmmaker Florian Gaag (“Whole Train”) will talk about the making of Whole Train. Florian Gaag was himself a member of Munich’s graffiti scene for many years, and will discuss why he made a film about it and his experience in Germany. Born in 1971, Florian Gaag spent four years studying at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and contributed to the Hip Hop magazine, “Juice”. From 1995 - 2001 he worked on numerous short films and documentaries . In addition to writing the screenplay and directing the movie, he co-produced WHOLETRAIN and also produced the soundtrack. WHOLETRAIN is his feature film debut. 
The legendary graffiti writer ket from New York will give a spraying demonstration and show examples of his work. ket is an artist, photographer, author, artistic consultant, and frequent lecturer on the topic of graffiti. His photographs have appeared in Rolling Stone, The New York Times Magazine, The London Sunday Telegraph, The Source, and Stress. Ket launched Stress, a hip-hop magazine credited for breaking such artists as Jay-Z, Foxy Brown, Eminem, and Raekwon, among others. ket said about WHOLETRAIN: „I loved the movie. I thought that „Wholetrain“ represented the scene the best - ever. It really captured what writers go through and their struggles; they were humanized, they weren’t caricatures. I appreciate that."