Laemmle's Sunset 5
8000 Sunset Blvd
323.848.3500
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David Choe
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Apr 30, 2010 – May 6, 2010
Daily
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$11
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“Watching Harry Kim's documentary on puckish artist David Choe is a lot like being trapped with Choe in an elevator for 92 minutes — random, enriching, illuminating, inspirational, and kind of intense. His friend since adolescence, Kim basically followed Choe around for eight years, in the process capturing him at work and play, through personal and professional highs and lows, extensive international travel, and in near-constant confessional mode. Choe freely admits to his psychological volatility and occasionally aggro persona, yet conveys through the hail of F-Bombs a capacity for sensitivity, loyalty, and self-awareness that will impress and surprise even his most dogged fans. Supplemented with insightful interviews with colleagues from Shepard Fairey to Eric Nakamura as well as his cheerfully supportive parents, the piece is almost too thorough, like a punk-rock Ken Burns joint, revealing the real person behind the cult of personality.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
Note:
An exhibition of new work by Choe is on at Lazarides Gallery in Beverly Hills from April 23-May 23.
Upper Playground says: Upper Playground is proud to present the Los Angeles Theatrical premiere of Dirty Hands, a documentary by Harry Kim.
Director Harry Kim spent eight tumultuous years following a young, near-schizophrenic street artist, David Choe, who devises numerous criminal schemes that make it possible for him to hitchhike across the globe. Choe skirts the legal constraints of society to "freely" create his art. His nonchalant law-breaking style lands him in jail several times, leading to his eventual demise in solitary confinement in a Tokyo prison cell. He resurfaces with a radically religious agenda and returns home with hope to overcome his criminal temptations and repair his severed relationships.
The filmmaker (who has been friends with Choe since they met at the Korean-American teenage summer camp in 1990) captures the complexity of David's life though a collage work of archived childhood home videos, still photographs, intimate artwork, animation, and eight years of footage shot on the road with the artist.
