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"Sped" -the street artist movie - Produced and Directed by Cheryl Dunn
What's perhaps most attractive about "Sped," besides the artist subjects themselves is how Dunn explores these artists as if her film and camera were a paint brush and easel of its own. Unique usage of light leaks, Bolex reversed film, and POV shots from a skateboard, makes this film an original. Although each artist profiled in "Sped" once designed Original Sin snowboards (the thread of the film), they are much more diverse and individual in their senses of art, painting, and living styles. In one segment, we follow the life of artist Andy Jenkins from the eye of a camera on a skateboard as Dunn follows Jenkins riding in and out of NYC night traffic. Surprisingly, she doesn't get killed shooting that sequence and brings you, instead, to a desert where Phil Frost is painting his distinct alien-like beings on the side of a blue van in a junkyard. Overall, the film gets you into the minds and lives of the artists themselves, giving them time to speak about their art-sometimes with the use of voiceovers-leaving the viewer with a real sense of why it is they do what they do.-K.G.
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