Make Me Famous (2021)
Directed by Brian Vincent
92 minutes
August 15 screening at New Plaza Cinema with a Q&A featuring Annina Nosei (Jean-Michel Basquiat's first gallerist) and Claudia Summers (model and writer), plus director Brian Vincent, producer Heather Spore, and archival cinematographer Jim C. An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on sucess, who thwarted his own career with antics that roiled NYC’s art elite. Brezinski’s quest for fame gives an intimate portrait of the art world’s attitude towards success and failure, fame and fortune, notoriety and erasure.