Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (2020)
• June 8th, 2020 • 1h 40min
Documentary
Overview
Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until Dawn is a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (1927-1999), who painted all night to push the limits of vision. His life and thought reveal a correlation between art and activism through an interesting angle: the creative process itself.
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