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*A series of Bay Area posts should be sprinkled with cool events to check out if/when you’re there.

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“SF360 Film+Club returns to Mezzanine on Wednesday, April 4, to
celebrate the URB Next 100 Issue with a screening of Doug Pray’s
INFAMY. The film is an intense journey into the dangerous lives and
obsessed minds of six of America’s most prolific graffiti artists.
Doug Pray (”Hype!” and “Scratch”) teamed up with writer, publisher,
and graffiti guru Roger Gastman, to make a movie that takes you deep
into the world of street legends SABER, TOOMER, JASE, CLAW, EARSNOT,
and ENEM. After the film, the amazing Chicago dj Flosstradamus will
perform, with Vin Sol opening. Doors at 7 pm, film starts at 7:30 pm,
music starts at 10 pm. Tickets to the film are $8, but you can email
info@sf360.org for $5 tickets. If you show up for the concert only,
tickets will be $10. SF360 Film+Club is a monthly event, presented by
the San Francisco Film Society, Mezzanine and Rehab. It is sponsored
by SFWeekly and 7×7. SF360 Film+Club is a monthly series, and past
events have featured NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting, Wholphin and
COLMA: The Musical.

As for INFAMY, the film is funny and brutally honest. The artists in
the film reveal why they are so willing to risk everything to spray
paint their cities with “tags,” “throwups,” and full-color murals.
You’ll also meet Joe “THE GRAFFITI GUERRILLA” Connolly, a notorious
“buffer” who paints out graffiti on his neighborhood’s walls with a
vengeance matched only by those who vandalized them. From the streets
of the South Bronx to the solitude of a San Francisco tunnel, from
high atop a Hollywood billboard to North Philadelphia for a lesson in
“Philly-style tags,” from the Mexican border to a Cleveland train
yard, INFAMY doesn’t analyze or glorify graffiti… it takes you there
and brings it to life.”

www.mezzaninesf.com
www.sffs.org
http://www.infamythemovie.com/
www.flosstradamus.com