vagabond Beaumont

Art Is A Weapon...

<p>Brooklyn born to a Puerto Rican mother and Jamaican father and raised in the<br> boroughs of <span class="caps">NYC</span>, Vagabond’s use of images began with using NYC’s Mass Transit<br> Authority as a canvas while attending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music &amp; the<br> Arts. After graduating he went on to attend The School of Visual Arts but dropped out<br> after his first year. He began his career in film early on, working on independent black<br> films such as Spikes Lees “Do The Right Thing”, where he quickly learned all aspects of<br> filmmaking and forged his own artistic and ideological aesthetic.</p><p><br> The first film that Vagabond produced was the documentary “RICANSTRUCTING<br> VIEQUES”, that told the story of the US military’s occupational abuse of Vieques,<br> Puerto Rico as a training site, through the use of interviews and live musical<br> performance footage of Nuyorican punk rock band Ricanstruction. <br> Vagabond continued working with Ricanstruction and help found what would become<br> the Ricanstruction Netwerk, a politically radical artist collective in the vein of the<br> Situationist International. Vagabond would go on to create murals, posters, pamphlets,<br> and videos and organize political marches, rallies, vigils, art shows, screenings and<br> protests with the Ricanstruction Netwerk.</p><p><br> “MACHETERO” is his first feature film. The film stars Isaach de Bankolé (Ghost Dog,<br> Manderlay, The Limits Of Control) who plays a French journalist who comes to New<br> York to interview a Puerto Rican “terrorist” in prison about his decision to use violence<br> as a means to free his people. Screened in neighborhood/barrio community centers and<br> squats while still in mid-production, the controversial film engendered political<br> discussion and debate within (and outside of) the Puerto Rican Diaspora and has been<br> called one of the most important and insightful underground political films ever made. It<br> has since gone one to screen at festivals all over the world and garnered six awards around the world.&nbsp;<br></p><br>

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