The film screening and discussion is organized by Q-Space - q-space.ee
A film about Keith Haring, a revolutionary street artist and HIV activist, will be shown in Narva on December 12, 2024, and in Tallinn on January 16, 2025
Keith Haring lived for only 31 years but left behind over 10,000 works (drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, graffiti), showing what a truly productive artist-activist can accomplish and forever changing the perception of street art.
To mark the 30th anniversary of his death from AIDS, BAFTA award-winning film director Ben Anthony created a memorial documentary biopic Keith Haring: Street Art Boy (UK, 2020, 58 min).
The film includes interviews with Haring’s friends, relatives, lovers, and colleagues; rare footage from the artist's archive; and recordings of the key events in his life: his first exhibits, wild parties with celebrities like Andy Warhol and Grace Jones, and protest rallies against Apartheid, the arms race, and the discrimination of people living with HIV.
As he became one of the leading figures of pop art, Keith Haring changed the attitudes towards street culture. Before his vibrant life ended too soon, he dedicated his last years to fighting AIDS and protecting the LGBTQ community.
The film will be followed by a discussion on topics ranging from Keith Haring's influence on contemporary street art and visual art in general to the perception of HIV in Estonian society and the overcoming of the HIV-related stigma.
The discussion will feature:
Sirla – street artist, founder of Stencibility festival, the longest-running street art festival in the Baltics;
Moderator – human rights activist Ilya Ershov.
The film will be shown in English with Russian and Estonian subtitles.
The discussion will be in Russian and English.
Free admission.
Partners:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
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The film screening and discussion is organized by Q-Space - q-space.ee
A film about Keith Haring, a revolutionary street artist and HIV activist, will be shown in Narva on December 12, 2024, and in Tallinn on January 16, 2025
Keith Haring lived for only 31 years but left behind over 10,000 works (drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, graffiti), showing what a truly productive artist-activist can accomplish and forever changing the perception of street art.
To mark the 30th anniversary of his death from AIDS, BAFTA award-winning film director Ben Anthony created a memorial documentary biopic Keith Haring: Street Art Boy (UK, 2020, 58 min).
The film includes interviews with Haring’s friends, relatives, lovers, and colleagues; rare footage from the artist's archive; and recordings of the key events in his life: his first exhibits, wild parties with celebrities like Andy Warhol and Grace Jones, and protest rallies against Apartheid, the arms race, and the discrimination of people living with HIV.
As he became one of the leading figures of pop art, Keith Haring changed the attitudes towards street culture. Before his vibrant life ended too soon, he dedicated his last years to fighting AIDS and protecting the LGBTQ community.
The film will be followed by a discussion on topics ranging from Keith Haring's influence on contemporary street art and visual art in general to the perception of HIV in Estonian society and the overcoming of the HIV-related stigma.
The discussion will feature:
Sirla – street artist, founder of Stencibility festival, the longest-running street art festival in the Baltics;
Moderator – human rights activist Ilya Ershov.
The film will be shown in English with Russian and Estonian subtitles.
The discussion will be in Russian and English.
Free admission.
Partners:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
A film about Keith Haring, a revolutionary street artist and HIV activist, will be shown in Narva on December 12, 2024, and in Tallinn on January 16, 2025
Keith Haring lived for only 31 years but left behind over 10,000 works (drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, graffiti), showing what a truly productive artist-activist can accomplish and forever changing the perception of street art.
To mark the 30th anniversary of his death from AIDS, BAFTA award-winning film director Ben Anthony created a memorial documentary biopic Keith Haring: Street Art Boy (UK, 2020, 58 min).
The film includes interviews with Haring’s friends, relatives, lovers, and colleagues; rare footage from the artist's archive; and recordings of the key events in his life: his first exhibits, wild parties with celebrities like Andy Warhol and Grace Jones, and protest rallies against Apartheid, the arms race, and the discrimination of people living with HIV.
As he became one of the leading figures of pop art, Keith Haring changed the attitudes towards street culture. Before his vibrant life ended too soon, he dedicated his last years to fighting AIDS and protecting the LGBTQ community.
The film will be followed by a discussion on topics ranging from Keith Haring's influence on contemporary street art and visual art in general to the perception of HIV in Estonian society and the overcoming of the HIV-related stigma.
The discussion will feature:
Sirla – street artist, founder of Stencibility festival, the longest-running street art festival in the Baltics;
Moderator – human rights activist Ilya Ershov.
The film will be shown in English with Russian and Estonian subtitles.
The discussion will be in Russian and English.
Free admission.
Partners:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Info
Rating
Under 16 Not Allowed
Production year
2024
Global distributor
TVF International
Local distributor
Q-Space
In cinema
1/16/2025