Downtown '81 backdrop
Downtown '81 poster

Select Stream Source

Downtown '81

Synopsis

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.

Select one of the Stream 1 or Stream 2 buttons