Style Wars

Regarded as the indispensable document of New York Street culture of the early ’80s, the film is record of a golden age of youthful creativity that exploded into the world from a city in crisis. Capturing the look and feel of New York’s ramshackle subway system as graffiti writers’ public playground, battleground and spectacular artistic canvas. Opposing them by every means possible were Mayor Edward Koch, the police, and the New York Transit Authority. Meanwhile MCs, DJs and B-boys rocked the city with new sounds and new moves and street corner breakdance battles evolved into performance art. Directed by Tony Silver and produced by Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant.