Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe (2008)
1h 33m
Running Time
June 21, 2008Release Date
Dirty Hands: The Art & Crimes of David Choe (2008)
1h 33m
Running Time
June 21, 2008Release Date
Plot.
Los Angeles artist David Choe's kaleidoscopic work can be playful, confrontational and sexually frank. His personal life is no less complicated, as revealed by close friend Harry Kim, who documented Choe's life and crimes from 2000 to 2007. From the manic highs of commercial success and dinosaur hunting in the Congo to the self-destructive lows of Japanese jail sentences and bouts of self-doubt and depression, what begins as a gleeful portrait of a bad-boy artist slowly becomes a poignant celebration of one man's journey, both artistically and spiritually, toward his own uncertain salvation. Written by Travis Miles
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Dirty Hands: The Art and Crimes of David Choe is a 2008 documentary film about the painter and graffiti artist David Choe, directed by Harry Kim.
Over more than a decade, Kim filmed the most intimate and dramatic moments of his best friend Choe's colorful life as an artist. Dirty Hands began as a film school project, but gradually expanded into a half-hour film entitled Whales and Orgies, then a feature-length documentary. The film was premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival on June 21, 2008, and had a theatrical premiere at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco in May 2010. The end credits' song was produced by the Grammy-nominated music producer Dr. Luke.