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Up There - The Dying Art of Hand-Painted Advertisements
The film examines the dying art of hand-painted advertisements, or ghost signs. With the rise of supergraphics in recent years — large vinyl banners designed to cover entire sides of buildings — the relevance and cost-effectiveness of paying to have advertisements painted by hand is in question. Up There, produced by Mother New York and Stella Artois, examines this fading art through the stories of a group of New York painters who continue to hand paint these advertisements.
