So Fab Five Freddy, New York graffiti artist and early hip hop trendsetter, wandering the streets of Florence and talking to various talking heads about the presence of multi ethnic people in both the art and history of renaissance period. Heard it all before? Seen this exact set-up a thousand times?
Seriously one of the strangest and most charismatically specific documentaries I've ever seen. WHY IS HE ON A HORSE? They don't even explain it. They don't even feel they should. Freddy's manner of speech is magnificently incongruous here, he seems deeply at home probing the never-before-filmed vaults strewn with Michelangelo sketches. His silent rage at early sculptural depictions of African slaves. His strange enjoyment at the sprawling legacy of the House of Medici. There's a strange magic to it - like mixing completely different styles of food and making the perfect meal.
Sometimes it seems to know that the entire premise is silly, sometimes it doesn't - it's a bafflingly idiosyncratic bit of television and I'm deeply fond of it.