Vigilante Vigilante: Anti-Graffiti Stalkers and those who Stalk them

by Voyvak, October.18.2009

Documentary filmmakers Max Good and Nathan Wollman set out to expose a prolific anti-graffiti vigilante vandal who spray-paints silver blobs over existing graffiti. Through trial and error, the filmmakers hone their amateur surveillance skills and eventually identify and confront their target. The film then ventures deeper into questions over the legitimacy and motivations of graffiti and anti-graffiti, with perspectives from both sides and examples of three other well-known anti-graffiti vigilantes across the US.

Also see the accompanying news clip in which the Army Corps of Engineers "buffs" the world's largest graffiti tag in Los Angeles. Katsu's tag featured here on Chunnel may now be the world's largest.

The war of attrition between art and boring continues.