Manfred (Manny) Kirchheimer is an award-winning independent filmmaker based in New York. His groundbreaking film Stations of the Elevated, which premiered at the 1981 New York Film Festival, documented the subway graffiti explosion of 1977, a key period in which graffiti made the transition from writing to art. More recently, Tall, a feature about the evolution of the American skyscraper, opened the Premieres film series at the Museum of Modern Art’s grand reopening in 2004, and enjoyed runs at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Art, and abroad. Kirchheimer’s other films include We Were So Beloved, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, Bridge High, Short Circuit, Claw, Haiku, Leroy Douglas, and Colossus on the River.
Kirchheimer teaches film production at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is currently in preproduction for a new documentary about war as represented in the graphic arts throughout history.
Kirchheimer is listed in Who’s Who in Entertainment, Who’s Who in the East, and The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film.
International Graffiti courtesy of:
Melbournegraffiti.com, AUSTRALIA
Venus Crew, Sice, CHINA
Paint.dk, Mads Jarner, DENMARK
Moody, Shil, No Limits Crew, ESTONIA
Tuomas Lehtinen, FINLAND
Criseo Clement, FRANCE
Manny Kirchheimer, GERMANY
Arthur Tavera, Graver, Toter, INDONESIA
Kelm2, ITALY
Nobuyki Kojima, JAPAN
Zachary Alspaugh, NEW ZEALAND
Dorian Serpa, NICARAGUA
Odeith, PORTUGAL
And Unknown Photographers
About me: spraymasters In SprayMasters, four ex-graffiti writers reflect on their early years as renegades who sneaked into rail yards and decorated New York subway cars with stolen
paint while eluding arrest by the authorities. Now in their forties and embraced by
the establishment, Lee Quinones, Lady Pink, and Futura 2000 are prominent artists
with an international following, while Zephyr is a widely published journalist who
writes about popular culture. They talk about the extreme risks they took as teenagers,
the joys of seeing their work on subway cars, the diverse styles of graffiti, its global
reach, and its place in modern life, where it has been co-opted by advertising and
fashion. SprayMasters is a follow-up to Kirchheimer’s underground classic Stations of
the Elevated (1980), the first film to feature New York’s infamous subway graffiti.
Although the exuberant painted trains are gone, they live again in SprayMasters,
in rare footage never seen before, set to an electrifying musical soundtrack that evokes
the heyday of graffiti.
A film by MANFRED KIRCHHEIMER 85 minutes, color
“Manny Kirchheimer is a consummate filmmaker.” – The Independent
“One of the best American filmmakers.” – Wide Angle
“His films are hopeful, yet they admonish the future.” – Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film
First off thanks for the add! Futura, Lady Pink and Lee..Legends of the Graff world. I remember a Lee piece in the subway tunnel by Brooklyn Bridge with the desert and I believe it was a pyramid or a camel. Sweeeet.
Thank you for add ing me to your friends list! i ama fan an admirer of the spraymasters they have been around along time, i remember seeing lee quinones art work on the subway trains that's how far back i know his name! fantastic artists that all i can say!
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