Watching My Name Go By (1976)
• January 23rd, 1976 • 0h 25min
Documentary, TV Movie
Overview
Watching My Name Go By is a 1976 BBC documentary on the birth of graffiti in New York City, and the fight to both prevent it, and expand it's artistic value. In 'Watching my name go by' kids in New York have a unique kind of occupation - sitting on the subway stations ' watching my name go by'. Eleven to 17-year olds compete to see how many times they can 'get their names up ' in a colorful way - a kind of graffiti cult game which has its own rules and regulations. It's illegal and dangerous-some New Yorkers think it's a kind of ' art others think it's disgusting.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
England 79
Released on: 2019-11-01
Documentary
"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.
Moa Martinson - Mother of the Country
Released on: 2019-02-07
Documentary
Documentary about Moa Martinson.
Ekerwald - Education and Lust
Released on: 2016-03-23
Documentary
The author Carl-Göran Ekerwald has written more than 50 books. At the age of 87, a new chapter in hi...
Woman on the Run
Released on: 2017-04-16
Thriller, TV Movie
After surviving an attempt on her life, a reclusive mystery author discovers that her nanny has stol...
1974, l'alternance Giscard
Released on: 2019-10-05
Documentary, TV Movie, History
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...
Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich
Released on: 2022-11-25
Documentary
Stories from survivors frame this documentary detailing the sex-trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwe...
This Beggar's Description
Released on: 2006-07-19
Documentary
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Released on: 2024-02-09
Documentary
New York City's beloved Ukrainian restaurant Veselka is best known for its borscht and varenyky, but...
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Released on: 2002-05-10
Documentary
This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...
Static
Released on: 2009-07-04
Documentary
Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It wa...
Merton: A Film Biography
Released on: 1984-01-01
Documentary
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
La Doctrine
Released on: 2021-01-19
Drama, Documentary
Narrator dreams of Madrid while being caught in a repetitive loop somewhere in Paris. He questions i...
Making of a Male Model
Released on: 1983-10-09
Drama, Romance, TV Movie
Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Ne...
Plains: Testimony of an Ethnocide
Released on: 1971-06-01
Documentary
A documentary on the massacre of Planas in the Colombian east plains in 1970. An Indigenous communit...
Strange Days Diary NYC
Released on: 2024-10-10
Documentary
One neighborhood in New York City, March 2020: the coronavirus is spreading rapidly, the federal gov...
The World Before Your Feet
Released on: 2018-11-21
Documentary
For over 6 years, Matt Green, 37, has been walking every street in New York City – a total of more t...
Just for the Summer
Released on: 2020-05-09
Romance, Comedy, Family, Drama, TV Movie
Penelope Campbell loves her annual summer vacations visiting her Grandma Dot, despite Dot's constant...
Burning Man: Voyage in Utopia
Released on: 2007-12-15
Documentary
With a strong emphasis on founder Larry Harvey and temple artist David Best, this video expresses th...
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Released on: 2010-03-05
Documentary
Banksy is a graffiti artist with a global reputation whose work can be seen on walls from post-hurri...