- HD 1080
- Runtime: 72m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: en
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Edo Bertoglio
- Stars: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Saul Williams, Anna Shroeder, Debbie Harry, Giorgio Giomelsky
- keywords: gay interest, art, anarchic comedy, gay artist
- Production_studio: New York Beat Films
- providers: Metrograph, Kino Film Collection
- The Downtown '81 is featured in the top rankings of 2001
- #29 in Top Comedy Movies of 2001
- #84 in Top Drama Movies of 2001
The film is a day in the life of a young artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat, who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted. He wanders the downtown streets carrying a painting he hopes to sell, encountering friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into.
