When San Francisco Art Institute graduate Edward Brezinski moved to New York City’s Lower East Side in 1979, he had no idea what he was in for.
The 1980s art scene was about to explode, with artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and many others the central figures of a wildly creative time. Director Brian Vincent depicts these memorable times in “Make Me Famous,” a documentary for which he commissioned original works from artists of the period, including Richard Hambleton, James Romberger and Marguerite Van Cook.
But the center of the film is Brezinski himself. What happened to him? Vincent heads to the south of France to investigate his mysterious “death” in the Cote d’Azur. True to the global influence of those ’80s New York artists, Vincent also finds threads of the story in Los Angeles, Detroit, Ireland and Berlin.