Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan (2020)

Inner Relate: poetry of Paint, Politics, Place

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.

Cast (23)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

J

James Gahagan

Himself (archival)

P

Patricia de Gogorza

Herself

G

Gene Lesser

Himself

Jacqueline Scott

Herself

G

George Pearlman

Himself

A

Andrea Pearlman

Herself

E

Erik Koch

Himself

R

Robert Henry

Himself

S

Selina Trieff

Herself

C

Catherine Peltz

Herself

P

Peter Peltz

Himself

D

David Zahn

Himself

L

Lorna Ritz

Herself

C

Carl Stallman

Himself

M

Myrna Harrison

Herself

S

Sam Menashe

Himself (archival)

P

Paulo Gahagan

Himself

S

Serena Gahagan

Herself

V

Veda Gahagan

Herself

G

George Ray

Himself

L

Lois White

Herself

J

John Mallery

Himself

A

Andy Leader

Himself

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