The Writing on the Wall

The Writing on the Wall — Plot

"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public phenomenon: Graffiti. Over an 18 month period, King and her crew followed the teenage members of a graffiti 'crew,' Vandals on the Street, as they painted and rapped and moved through the streets of downtown Newark. What emerges is a unique glimpse behind the 'tags' at the kind of inner city kids who write on walls, but who also make art; who create out of wedlock children, but who also form binding relationships; who drop out of school and never read a book, but who create their own brand of poetry through the medium of 'rap.'

• Release date
• December 11, 1986
• Runtime
• 28 min
• Genres
• Documentary

The Writing on the Wall — Cast

T

Too Sweet Hakeem

P

Phil Danzig

J

John Carlin

R

Roberta Crane Henry Chalfant