Beautiful Losers (2008)
Directors: Aaron Rose, Joshua Leonard
Where the skateboard scene became the art scene, where a group of friends converged in a New York storefront art space in the ‘90s, Beautiful Losers was beautifully filmed just as mainstream success came to many of the artists & many had gone their separate ways. With old footage from other documentaries and home movies, amazing interviews & so much art by the likes of Ed Templeton, Barry McGhee, Mike Mills, Margaret Killgaren, Shepard Fairey & my beloved Harmony Korine.
Like children never grown up, these were the lost boys (& girls), making art for themselves & for each other & they lived for it. From skateboarding and punk rock and graffiti to the cover of Giant Robot and write ups in the biggest art mags on the scene, this doc is cotton candy when you’re stoned.
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