JetSet Graffiti Productions is proud to announce the debut of our first feature length documentary at this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival!
“Abraham Obama” is a humorous and provocative look at an unprecedented political art movement. A campaign to change the visual landscape of America yields a new President, and ushers in a new collective consciousness for America’s people.
Famous street artist Ron English gathers a crew of professional pranksters and hits the road on a grass-roots campaign to make public art and promote Obama’s campaign for the Presidency. “Abraham Obama” takes us on an unforgettable ride as the stories of Ron English unfold alongside musicians and artists such as Shepard Fairey, Jack Medicine, David Choe, Sam Flores, The Date Farmers, Will.I.Am, Morgan Spurlock, DJ Z-Trip and several others.
Directed by Kevin Chapados, and Produced by Daniel Lahoda and Ron English.
COLORADO – LOS ANGELES – NEW YORK – WASHINGTON, D.C.
April 26 – INDIE SPIRIT FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – MID-WEST PREMIERE
http://indiespiritfilmfestival.bside.com/2009/films
May 4 – LA UNITED FILM FESTIVAL – LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
http://www.theunitedfest.com/losangeles/tickets.htm
MAY 7-10 – POLITICS ON FILM – WASHINGTON, DC PREMIERE
http://www.politicsonfilm.com/
MAY 14 – NYC 92Y TRIBECA – NYC PREMIERE
http://www.92y.org/shop/event_detail.asp?productid=T%2DMM5FM33
Ron English is a contemporary pop artist who explores popular brand imagery and advertising. Over the last twenty years he has pirated over one thousand billboards replacing existing advertisements with his own hand-painted “subvertisements.”
His pirated billboards, replace existing campaigns with his own art that very often uses the tactics of advertising to attack the products themselves in order to encourage free thought.
Ron English has also painted several album covers including The Dandy Warhols album cover “Welcome to the Monkey House”. Some of his paintings were also used in Morgan Spurlock’s documentary Super Size Me.
You can also see his work in Absolut’s charity campaigns, in prominent museums and galleries such as Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York or in Luciano Pavarotti’s home.
Photo Credit: ©Stefan Kloo
Tags: abraham obama, ayana soyini, jetset graffiti, politics, ron english, street art
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