Paint Until Dawn: a documentary on art in the life of James Gahagan
“Inner Relate: poetry of Paint, Politics, Place”
2020•PG-13•1h 40m•Released
Documentary
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.
Director
Eli Ives
Budget
$0M
Languages
English
Studio
Lumikalai Film
Cast
James Gahagan
Himself (archival)
Patricia de Gogorza
Herself
Gene Lesser
Himself
Jacqueline Scott
Herself
George Pearlman
Himself
Andrea Pearlman
Herself
Erik Koch
Himself
Robert Henry
Himself
Selina Trieff
Herself
Catherine Peltz
Herself
Peter Peltz
Himself
David Zahn
Himself
Lorna Ritz
Herself
Carl Stallman
Himself
Myrna Harrison
Herself
Production
Company
Lumikalai Film
Producer
Eli Ives
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