IN CINEMA
MADE YOU LOOK: H20 (HIP-HOP ODYSSEY)
STICKER MOVIE
Tickets: $15 General Admission / $7 Reduced Price
Thursday, July 25th at 7PM
Co-presented with Hip-Hop Education Center
Sha-Risse R. Smith & Will "Chilly Willy" Deloney, 2023, 53 min.
STICKER MOVIE is a celebration of sticker culture worldwide. Through street art, zines, shows, and photography, people of all ages and backgrounds form an international community. This self-regulated network of enthusiasts create, trade, collect, and display stickers outdoors for all to see. Sticker people are the heart of this subculture, and STICKER MOVIE is their legacy - a colorful patchwork of stories told by the slap taggers, sticker heads, artists, and collectors who shape this culture, guard it, and share it with the world.
STICKER MOVIE screens as part of MADE YOU LOOK: H20 (HIP-HOP ODYSSEY), a collaborative screening series reflecting Hip Education Center's ongoing commitment to celebrating and preserving Hip-Hop culture through innovative programming and partnerships. With its roots in overcoming barriers and fostering equity, this new film series continues to honor the vibrant legacy of Hip-Hop and its profound impact on society.
Post-screen discussion with filmmaker Sha-Risse R. Smith and Will "Chilly Willy" Deloney (Zoom)! Followed by sticker-making and reception!!
WILL DELONEY is an Emmy Award winning storyteller, with over 18 years of experience producing and directing television, motion pictures, and digital content. As the Executive Director for Pixelated Ideas, Will currently manages a group of creative professionals across the U.S. capturing culture-defining moments that attract diverse audiences. Current obsessions include independent film, documentaries, stickers, street art, and fingerboards.
PRIME MINISTER PETE NICE was a founding member of the Def Jam Recordings group 3rd Bass and released two gold albums for the label from 1989 to 1992. His career in Hip Hop began in 1985 as a solo MC managed by Lumumba Carson and in 1987 he established the first Hip Hop radio show with DJ Clark Kent on WKCR at Columbia University. In 1992 he founded Hoppoh Recordings and released the albums of Kurious and Count Bass D and also managed the Elektra rap group KMD featuring MF Doom. He has worked as a historian and consultant with artists and collectors dedicated to preserving Hip Hop artifacts and history. He is currently working on a book with Paradise Gray entitled, “The Golden Age of Hip Hop 1983-1992: An Illustrative History.” He is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College.
SHA-RISSE SMITH is a writer, mother, and proud Harlemite. Her passion is to bring diversity to film by creating unique stories which showcase strong female characters. Her award-winning film Strive, starring JoiStarr and Danny Glover, is a tribute to the legacy of Striver's Row in Harlem. In addition to filmmaking, Sha-Risse loves graffiti and is active in sticker art culture worldwide under the alias Agent 5 Smith
JAMES TOP is an artist, documentarian, author and educator. He started his art career as a founding member of The Brooklyn based Odd Partners or Top they would dominate the Ind & Bmt subway lines during the mid to late 1970s. Today, he is an art consultant to area schools and colleges. For over 2 decades, he has also been producer and host of GRAFFITI NYC TV, a local cable TV show. In recent years, he has traveled nationally as well as internationally. He art is part of the prestigious Schomburg collection in Harlem and the Cornell University hip-hop collection .He is a father and a Harlem resident.
JIM TOZZI studied film and illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design. He moved to New York and started working at Broadcast Arts, inking and painting animation cells. He created the award winning “Twip” campaign for Nick at Nite’s TV Land. He directed commercial spots for Miller Lite, Sprite and Florida’s anti-tobacco campaign as well as an award winning campaign for Kellogg’s Rice Krispie Treats for Leo Burnett. As part of the art collective PFFR, Jim designed animation characters and puppets for the cult hit show Wondershowzen. He co-created and produced Xavier Renegade Angel on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. Jim continues to draw, paint, make puppets and do low level graffiti crimes featuring Bert’s tit.
NICEO CM is a legendary graffiti writer from the Upper West Side of New York City, representing Criminal Minded, YNN, HowCru, 2DVD, NBV, Zulu Nation, and LoLifes. His career spans over 40 years. Niceo is infamous for bombing the streets and subway tunnels of New York City with his versatile style. Whether he is designing apparel for Ralph Lauren or Bushcamp, making stickers or posters, or creating canvases or pins, he always puts graff first. He proudly states, “I'll write graffiti until the day I die.”
THE HIP-HOP EDUCATION CENTER (HHEC) IS AN INNOVATION HUB AND INCUBATOR THAT CENTRALIZES AND CONNECTS THE WORK OF HIP-HOP ARTISTS, TEACHERS, STUDENTS, SCHOLARS, ARCHIVISTS, CURATORS, ACTIVISTS, AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS FROM ACROSS THE GLOBE TO EMPOWER THE COMMUNITY AND PRESERVE, CREATE, AND HONOR HIP-HOP’S LEGACY.
