Michael Holman

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

Basquiat, Une Vie

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Acting

2010

Basquiat, Une Vie

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Himself

2022

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artiste absolu

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Self - Musician, hip-hop historian, co-founder of the group Gray

1997

Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2

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2017

Basquiat: Rage to Riches

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Self (Writer, filmmaker)

2010

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child

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Self

2014

Sound and Chaos: The Story of BC Studio

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Himself

2001

Downtown '81

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Michael

2005

TV Party

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Self

2009

Downtown Calling

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Self

2021

Sk8r Grrl

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2018

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Self

2004

And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop

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Self

1972

Fillmore

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Himself - Performer

The Hip Hop Years

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Self

Graffiti Rock

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Himself - Host

My Coolest Years

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Himself

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World

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Self

Production

1997

Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 1

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1997

Michael Holman Presents The New York City Breakers Volume 2

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1984

Beat Street

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2009

Downtown Calling

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1981

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

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1984

Pesceador

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Eureeka's Castle

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Graffiti Rock

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Crew

Directing

1981

Vincent Gallo as Flying Christ

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1996

Basquiat

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2011

Money Dog

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1984

Pesceador

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1987

Vampire Lestat

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Eureeka's Castle

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Blue's Clues

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