Downtown 23 (Power/Refinement)
The film is a day in the life of the upcoming Hollywood Artist, Revelation 13:18 aka Black Caesar who needs to raise money to reclaim the apartment from which he has been evicted along with the circumstances of rehabilitation and parole discharge. He wanders through Downtown Los Angeles Streets with his poetry book and a cell phone full of instrumentals he made in his studio via the evicted apartment. Being a graphic design artist and going to graphic design school while rehabilitating he is lucky to be working on the Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure Art Show Street Team for a school Art Club and carrying a class NFT project and some NFTs that he hopes to sell. Along with encountering Revelations friends, whose lives (and performances) we peek into. He has a ticket to the event Jean-Michel and the New York Art Scene with Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Kenny Scharf, Lisane Basquiat, and Jeanine Heriveaux. He ditches his friends due to his rent situation and goes to the event for inspiration to write poetry due to his depressed mental state. This is where Revelation 13:18 comes up with the concept for a life-changing song Old School feat. Jean-Michel Basquiat inside the Basquiat Art Show. During the Art Show, he finally manages to sell his NFT to a wealthy female admirer at the Basquiat event. With his meta mask full of cryptocurrency for rent money but low on cash, he spends the evening wandering from club to club, looking for a beautiful girl he had met earlier, so he'll have a place to spend the night. Downtown 23 not only captures one of the most interesting and lively artists of the twentieth-first century as he is poised for upcoming Hollywood fame, but it is a slice of life from one of the most Iconic Painters in American culture, with the emergence of new wave music, school curriculum, new painting, hip hop, and graffiti.