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Synopsis: Piece by Piece is a groundbreaking film that documents San Francisco's highly controversial graffiti art movement. A story told by those who live the experience, Piece by Piece offers an intimate journey into the most intriguing and misunderstood artistic movement of modern youth culture. By detailing the last 20 years of San Francisco's graffiti this tale offers the most candid and accurate story behind the writing on the wall in Northern California. Never has such an in-dept and balanced document been created representing San Francisco graffiti. 100 hours of footage and interviews have been collected for over 4 years and have finally been edited into a cohesive documentary film.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Nic Hill
Actors: Senor One
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
2005
79 min
364 Views


and so another job for the police

and the courts.

Johnny Marvin is now in the

hands of the law

this is the first time he has been

caught but his delinquent tendencies

began long before in the conflicts

of an unhappy home and

in the hang out of a gang, which

was his refuge.

Now what will become of this

boy?

Johnny and 200 thousand youngsters

who are arrested each year

are Americas number one crime

problem

can't something be done to help these

twisted young lives and set them straight.

if you think graffiti is little more then

fun and games for rebellious teenagers

San Francisco authority beg to differ they

have brought serious charges against 8 adults

who police say are members of a graffiti

gang who has spent years defacing this city.

The group they say call

themselves KUK,

which stands for "Kill Until Killed."

if convicted the maximum penalty is a

20,000 fine and up to 7 years behind bars.

And police say since the indictments

they've noticed a lot less new graffiti.

they come to your house take all

your sh*t, you got to jail, bail out,

then they might throw more charges on you,

you know cause they got other charges stacked

you know cause these people are against you

being on the street theywantyou to be locked up.

You get indicted you knowthen sit back

in jail for a while, get bail money up,

bail out again, then they can throw

more sh*t like another county

Like Oakland or Berkeley someone

else can press charges

on you go back in, get bailed out again,

all you have like in the back of your head

is in a couple months I'm going

to prison.

Prop 21 is some ill sh*t cause when you

get charged with it so it's a gang charge

so all of a sudden your a gang

member and that can add a year to your

sentence automatically and anything

over a year your going to prison.

In SF right now a judge threw it out,

she said that they weren't gang members,

you know and since she threw it

out it lost in the court of appeals

and the D.A. appealed it so now

that charge is back on

and that enhances every other

charge you have like

every felony count of graffiti that

enhancesthat so much.

Proposition 21 is pretty much a

prison dispatch charge

its like as soon as you have that

your going to prison.

does it make me not want to do it?

I guess so if I thought about it

I just don't uh think about that.

oh I don't think it's a just penalty

at all because

at the same time I see that I see

on the same wall a wheat paste

for the lion king from Disney productions

and I see a million other wheat pastes

and those people don't go to jail.

well it comes down to it is

malicious mischief

the idea of destroying other peoples property

and the idea of defacing places in the city

I mean first off its personal property

most of the time that's being affected

second of all we have a situation

where it looks bad

it looks the people don't care about

their property and so it is a problem

and it is something we are a

addressing.

Well we have a graffiti unit and there

are officers assigned to that unit

to go after the people who are

doing the tagging and the graffiti

in the city.

especially in like the bay this year

Oakland is exceeding it's murder rates

seems like every otherweek in the

Fillmore someone else is getting shot

and their still wasting mad money

on a graffiti case.

cause there is always somebody new that's

come along saying lets get rid of graffiti

this is how we are going to do it

and then they try there little way

to do it and it doesn't work and then

they fail and then the next person comes

and then they fail and they fail, and they

fail, cause like graffiti is just a war.

along with battling the law writers

face the chaos ofthe urban landscape.

In the late 90's one writer seemed

to take more risks than anyone.

The all city king known as TlE.

Tie was Jonathan Lim and he was

18 years old when I met him.

he would go bomb by himself ln the

f***ing rain and the cold he wouldn't eat

he wouldn't f***ing give a sh*t about going out

with girls or kicking it or clothes or nothing.

All he cared about was racking his paint,

racking his supplies and getting up.

I think at one point In San Francisco you

couldn't go on any block of the entire city

without seeing at least a couple

marker tags some spray-paint tags

and a hollow throw-up sometimes a

hollow throw up and a filled in throw up

on like every block of the city

that's really not even an exaggeration.

I've never seen anybody up as much

as him and one person he was up like,

it would take 10 writers to be as up

as he was.

he knew like all writers in all different

crews and everybody loved him cause

he was like really generous and

he'd give you paint.

And like give you markers and like

he stole so much stuff like crazy.

I'm standing inthe paint section

picking my colors

and all of a sudden I hear "what's

up Cycle"

I turn and look and there's Tie with

at big duffle bag

and like I'm loading paint in this shopping

cart and he's like "what's going on dude?"

I said "nothing just picking some

colors." He's like "yo, is it all clear?"

and I 'm like " I guess so dude." and

he looks this way and looks that way

and the isles clear and he opens this

big duffle bag, big green duffle bag

and just

just like shoves all this paint in the

duffle bag zips it and just like

Runs out of the paint isle.

it was on uh saint Patrick's day-

night and I remember Saber was

gone he was doing something l

was at the house and MQ came

over and tie came over they both came

over together and he's like lets go bomb

Iets go bomb lets go do that spot tonight and

I was like man we've been painting all week

Iets chill lets party one night saint

Patrick's day- night lets just party

one night go get drunk hang out

and just relax have a good time.

He was like " no, no I gota bomb."

And I was like all right whatever

man do yourthing just be careful.

was by himself in the tender loin.

He was plotting on this one

rooftop he was just going to

go do a fill in on or something

probably on it.

there was like a little drainpipe that

you had to shimmy upto go up on the roof.

I guess he was going up the pipe whatever

and I guess it made a little noise

I don't know who knows, but there ended up

being a guy who lived inside this building.

The guy came out you know said

'what the f*** are you doing?"

then you know TlE steps back "

hey you know I'm sorry

I'm not trying to break in, I'm just

doing graffiti."

And he like showed him the paint

in his bag.

And the guy pulled out a gun

pointed the gun at him...

and the little kid put up his hands

and said no wait stop don't shoot...

...and tie obviously scared as f***

this big f***ing grown man

is pointing a big ass gun at his head,

he turned ran downthe steps you know

as he was running down the stairs

away form this guy

this motherf***er blasted him in

the back of the head.

because of the fact his parents

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