Shepard Fairey recently designed a poster for the film, “Let Fury Have the Hour”. It is a new documentary that looks at the last 40 years of social history to make the case for activism and creative response as an antidote to cynicism. The film features interviews with a variety of musicians, artists, and activists who share personal and powerful tales of how they transformed anger and angst into provocative art and ideas (including Fairey, musicians Tom Morello and Billy Bragg, filmmaker John Sayles, and comic Lewis Black).
The film premiered earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival, and is being released by NY-based indie distribution company CAVU Pictures, which opened the film in theatres beginning in New York City on Dec 14th. It will also be opening soon in LA (Jan 25), San Francisco (Jan 18) and Seattle (Feb 15).
This print is an 18″ x 24″ Screenprint, signed/numbered (by Shepard Fairey and Antonino D’ambrosio) edition of 450, and cost $55. On sale Thursday, January 24th at a random time between 10am and 12pm (PST) HERE.
"Let Fury Have the Hour" by Shepard Fairey. 18" x 24" Screenprint. Ed of 450 S/N. $55
SYNOPSIS: Rough, raw and unapologetically inspirational, LET FURY HAVE THE HOUR is a charged journey into the heart of the creative counter-culture in 2012. In a time of global challenges, big questions and by-the-numbers politics, this upbeat, outspoken film tracks the story of the artists, writers, thinkers and musicians who have gone underground to re-imagine the world – honing in on equality, community and engaged creativity – in exuberantly paradigm-busting ways.
Writer/director Antonino D’Ambrosio unites 50 powerful, of-the-moment voices –from street artist Shepard Fairey to rapper Chuck D to playwright Eve Ensler to musicians Tom Morello and Billy Bragg to novelist Edwidge Danticat to filmmaker John Sayles to comic Lewis Black – who share personal and powerful tales of how they transformed anger and angst into provocative art and ideas. Mix-mastered with historical footage, animation and performances, D’Ambrosio presents a visceral portrait of a generation looking to re-jigger a system that has failed to address the most pressing problems of our times . . . or human potential.
CAST INCLUDES: Eve Ensler, Lewis Black, John Sayles, Shepard Fairey, Chuck D, Van Jones, Tom Morello, Wayne Kramer, Billy Bragg, Ian MacKaye, D.J. Spooky, Hari Kunzru, Tommy Guerrero, Edwidge Danticat, Suheir Hammad
