Henry Chalfant

From Mambo to Hip Hop

Henry Chalfant

Through interviews and performance clips, filmmaker Henry Chalfant explores the history of music in the South Bronx, from the Puerto Rican and Cuban influences that created the local salsa sound to the rise of hip-hop after fires destroyed the area. Artists appearing in this colorful documentary include Eddie Palmieri, Angel Rodríguez, Benny Bonilla, Clemente "Kid Freeze" Moreno, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, Bobby Sanabria and many others.

All City

Henry Chalfant

Mare 139, Dondi

From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes what was intended to be the first installment in a regular television series on New York's bludgeoning hip-hop culture, with a specific focus on graffiti. Funding fell through but the material was just to good be left to languish. Chalfant put together what he had and, like Style Wars, it continues to stand as a document of a culture in blossom.

From Here to Canarsie

Henry Chalfant

From Henry Chalfant, the director genre defining documentary Style Wars, comes a short film featuring original graffiti innovators Blade and Maze painting a mural in 80's New York.