Make Me Famous

$10 General / $6 Members | NR | Documentary/ LQBTQ+/ Art | 1 hr 33 mins 

On Friday we will have a special Q&A with Director Brian Vincent and Producer Heather Spore.

A madcap romp through the 1980s NYC art scene amid the colorful career of painter Edward Brezinski, hell-bent on making it. Make Me Famous is a dishy insider’s look at the art world’s attitude toward success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.

Edward Brezinski worked alongside Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the Lower East Side art scene, but never reached the same level of success as his contemporaries. MAKE ME FAMOUS uncovers why such a well-connected yet peculiar painter never made it, despite being so maniacally focused in his quest for fame.

What begins as an investigation into Brezinski’s legacy and mysterious disappearance becomes a sharp, witty portrait of NYC’s 1980s downtown art scene. Gallery owners and fellow artists dish on insider gossip, name drop, and contradict each other in telling the story, resulting in an irresistible snapshot of an unknown artist that captures the spirit of an iconic era.

Cast

Edward Brezinski, David McDermott, Peter McGough, Marguerite Van Cook, James Romberger, Eric Bogosian, Claudia Summers, Kenny Scharf, Richard Hambleton, Patti Astor, Sur Rodney Sur, Walter Robinson, Marcus Leatherdale, Robert Hawkins, Mark Kostabi, Frank Holliday, Duncan Hannah, Annina Nosei, Miguel Piñero and Jean Michel Basquiat.