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AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES 2009

Concrete Canvas


Posted on 04 September 2009



The film reflects the growth of graffiti and how its existence is based on the existence of walls and concrete.
Graffiti is a form of the public’s voice, a protest and expression of how one views the world. Our film takes an abstract approach to the way in which concrete and graffiti unite to create undivided beauty where each needs the other. The irony in our film is how the existence of graffiti destroys concrete where we can also show the views of other people in how they think graffiti is destructive.
Graffiti acts to serve itself, using concrete as a medium. Our approach is how the two reconnect and bring about the feeling of, ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ in a sense where we do not like each other but we will always both exist regardless. We take in a more casual approach to the conflict and turn it into a collaborative growth of both together.