Dramas




  • Wild Style (1983), about hip hop and graffiti culture in New York City
  • Turk 182 (1985), about graffiti as political activism
  • Bomb the System (2002), about a crew of graffitists in modern-day New York City
  • Quality of Life (2004) was shot in the Mission District of San Francisco, co-written by and starring a retired graffiti writer.
  • Wholetrain (2006), a German film

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