City As Canvas: Above The Free Walls

City as Canvas: Above the Free Walls is a feature-length documentary exploring the legal graffiti art movement along the Modica Way, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Above the Free Walls reintroduces to the public audience the idea of a legal graffiti world. This film utilizes the graffiti art movement and form, along with street arts, public arts, graffiti arts, personal in-depth interviews, and never-before-seen works to address this visual adventure.
The story follows the life of SOBEK (Jeremy Harrison), Harriet Wood, and Luke as they paint at the Modica Way. The protagonists combine indigenous flavors of artistic expression with the blending and blurring of work, life, and graffiti arts to create truly original artworks.
Reflecting on the complexity and depth of their world, Jeremy, along with other artists such as Harriet and Luke, develop a voice that speaks to a new generation of the legal graffiti world in public art. In doing so, they progress their view of graffiti itself, seeing it essentially as an art form of ephemeral creations.
With the change, however, comes resistance. Jeremy, Harriet, Luke, and the other graffiti artists struggle to balance their daily lives and families with the criticisms of society that their messages so evocatively convey.

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