Person
Michael Holman
Acting · New York, USA
Biography
An influential observer of popular culture and entertainment, Michael Holman is a filmmaker, artist, writer, and musician, based in New York City. A pioneer in the Downtown New York Art Scene and Uptown Hip Hop Scene, Holman founded the band Gray - an industrial atmospheric, noise group - with painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, as well as created and produced the first Hip Hop television show, Graffiti Rock in 1984
Known for
Blue's Clues
Director
Eureeka's Castle
Director
My Coolest Years
Himself
And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop
Self
Basquiat
Story Developer
Graffiti Rock
Himself - Host
Beat Street
Producer
The Hip Hop Years
Self
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Self
TV Party
Self
Filmography
- 2023Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the WorldSelf
- 2022Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absoluSelf - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray
- 2021Sk8r Grrl
- 2018Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel BasquiatSelf
- 2017Basquiat: Rage to RichesSelf (Writer, filmmaker)
- 2014Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC StudioHimself
- 2011Money DogStory
- 2010Basquiat, Une VieHimself
- 2010Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant ChildSelf
- 2009Downtown CallingSelf
- 2005TV PartySelf
- 2004My Coolest YearsHimself
- 2004And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-HopSelf
- 2004And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-HopSelf
- 2001Downtown '81Michael
- 1999The Hip Hop YearsSelf
- 1997Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2
- 1997Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 1Producer
- 1996Blue's CluesDirector
- 1996BasquiatStory Developer
- 1989Eureeka's CastleDirector
- 1987Vampire LestatDirector
- 1984PesceadorDirector of Photography
- 1984Graffiti RockHimself - Host
- 1984Beat StreetProducer
- 1981Vincent Gallo as Flying ChristDirector
- 1972FillmoreHimself - Performer
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