Ever since ol’ Charlie Ahearn released Wild Style in 1983, folks have been blitzing with all kinds of media equipment, trying to capture and document (tag and release, maybe?) graffiti and hip hop culture. Bomb It! may be the first worthwhile update to Charlie’s classic.

“Public space” still excludes people, and the excluded still need to point that out sometimes, but graffiti’s engagement with hip hop culture has changed radically since the 1980s. The documentary’s interviews, which track some of the best and most socially caustic can junkies through places like Tokyo, Cape Town, and New York, make it clear that the current and the classic artists don’t always see their medium the same way. It’s not just styles and “artistic values” that are changing, but what graffiti can mean.

For a somewhat surreal viewing experience, start BombIt! as Wild Style’s credits are rolling.

Check out the November 23rd screening and after-party in London here
More about BombIt! here