Michael Holman

Born: None

An influential observer of popular culture and entertainment, Michael Holman is a filmmaker, artist, writer, and musician, based in New York City. A pioneer in the Downtown New York Art Scene and Uptown Hip Hop Scene, Holman founded the band Gray - an industrial atmospheric, noise group - with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as created and produced the first Hip Hop television show, Graffiti Rock in 1984


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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

as Self
Released: 2018-12-19

Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

as Self
Released: 2010-01-25

A thoughtful portrait of a renowned artist, this documentary shines the spotlight on New York...

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

as Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
Released: 2022-06-24

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for...

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And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

as Self
Released: 2004-04-02

The film documents the development of hip hop culture since its inception in the 1970s. With...

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Basquiat: Rage to Riches

as Self (Writer, filmmaker)
Released: 2017-10-07

This film tells Jean-Michel's story through exclusive interviews with his two sisters Lisane and...

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Downtown '81

as Michael
Released: 2001-07-13

The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money...

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Fillmore

as Himself - Performer
Released: 1972-06-14

Legendary rock impresario Bill Graham closed the Fillmore West in early summer 1971 with five...

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TV Party

as Self
Released: 2005-08-03

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV...

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Downtown Calling

as Self
Released: 2009-10-24

In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A...

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Basquiat, Une Vie

as Himself
Released: 2010-10-10

From Brooklyn to the Bronx, Soho to Greenwich, Union Square to Wall Street... Join us and the...

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Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2

as uncredited
Released: 1997-01-23

80's Archive Footage

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Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

as Self
First aired: 2023-01-21

Public Enemy’s Chuck D leads a cast of hip-hop icons and leading African-American and Latino...

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The Hip Hop Years

as Self
First aired: 1999-01-01

The Hip Hop Years is a three part series of one hour television documentaries, made for Channel...

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Graffiti Rock

as Himself - Host
First aired: 1984-06-29

Graffiti Rock was a hip-hop based television program, originally screened June 29, 1984....

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