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Biography
An influential observer of popular culture and entertainment, Michael Holman is a filmmaker, artist, writer, and musician, based in New York City. A pioneer in the Downtown New York Art Scene and Uptown Hip Hop Scene, Holman founded the band Gray - an industrial atmospheric, noise group - with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as created and produced the first Hip Hop television show, Graffiti Rock in 1984
Filmography9 titles
Blue's Clues
1996Director
1996Director
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
2010as Self
2010as Self
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
as Self
as Self
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
2018as Self
2018as Self
Beat Street
1984Producer
1984Producer
Downtown 81
2000as Michael
2000as Michael
Basquiat
1996Second Unit Director, Story Developer
1996Second Unit Director, Story Developer
Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio
2014as Himself
2014as Himself
Basquiat: Rage to Riches
2017as Self (Writer, filmmaker)
2017as Self (Writer, filmmaker)