Charles Ahearn

Charles Ahearn at IFFR

• Artist Portrait Videos

  Series of idiosyncratic portraits of artists in New York.

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• Peepland

  Film-maker Charles Ahearn and painter Jane Dickson are man and wife. Their views of ‘the neon theatre of life’ are compiled in this video. The two can see this theatre of life every day near their home on Times Square in New York City.Dickson’s paintings portray people forced ‘to live their private lives in public’. […]

• Doin’ time in Times Square

  ‘An extraordinary disturbing 45-minute piece of urban anthropology’, wrote the Village Voice. Doin’ Time in Times Square came about through Ahearn’s need to make home-movies. He had already made several films when he bought a video camera to record the growth of his child. The father however was too much of a film-maker only to […]