Street artists paint Caracas at night while dodging cops and death.
The first Venezuelan graffiti documentary featuring the participation of the most important writers of national graffiti, either by style, quantity, quality, technique and their experience or the places where they write, these writers have set a milestone in what graffiti is today in Venezuela. In the graffiti: respect, strategy, intelligence, experience, agility, skill, boldness, competition, secrecy and illegality are key and determining issues captured in this documentary. Pinto con lata takes place in the Gran Caracas, and records the graffiti movement during the years 2008-2011. Gran Caracas and its contrast, its nights, its harshness, its people and graffiti are the main protagonists.
Cinematography
Night shots that make Caracas breathe danger.
Production
Underground access no mainstream crew could get.
Direction
Toussaint risks his life to film this.
Director
Fernando Andrés Toussaint
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This documents Venezuelan graffiti's golden era before economic collapse made paint unaffordable.
Director Toussaint was nearly shot by police during filming; the paranoia you feel is real.
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