Graffiti

[close] What deadly secret is shared by a Holocaust survivor, a street kid and a posh Goth?

Melbourne street dweller and graffitist, BRINEY RUZA, has created a bizarre trackside game of secrets as a bit of cheeky fun for city commuters. But after a near-death train surfing incident, walls, her public canvas, begin using Briney and her art to release the secrets they were built to contain.

One family-related secret leads Briney and her ratbag boyfriend ZAC to Terezín, a small Czech fortress town once a Jewish Ghetto under Nazi control during WWII. Here she hopes to find her mother who deserted her at the age of eight. But first she encounters Ghetto survivor, Evzen Kravitz, a troubled, scruffy old man with little tolerance for today’s youth, who, for his own devious reasons, holds the key to this particular secret.

A chance meeting with a Czech girl, ZOJA, a Goth in that most gothic of cities, Prague, brings Briney’s sexuality into question. Meanwhile, Zac comes under the influence of a group of skinheads. These new relationships turn out to have direct and devastating connections to the traumatic past of the Ghetto, the Nazis, one particular camp ‘policeman’ – a Roma Kapo – and back to present-day Melbourne.

Nowhere are there more secrets than within the walls of Terezín, and Briney is drawn deep into the conspiracies surrounding the Holocaust, her own family and the ongoing corruption and rise of neo-nazism. Not all involved will come out alive.

Video trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM_B6M... [close]

[close] Venice Beach south of Los Angeles has an area called Graffiti Beach, or Graffiti Wall, or Graffiti Pit over the years. In the past artists were unofficially allowed to paint graffiti art on the wall, trees and other structures. Now the are is more regulated. Inspired by photos that I took in October 2005, this book is of art from the art. After all graffiti is mostly layers added to prior layers. [close]