Charlie Ahearn

La fantástica historia de cómo un antiguo arte marcial, el kung fu chino, conquistó el mundo a través de los cientos de películas que fueron producidas en Hong Kong durante décadas, transformó el cine de acción occidental e inspiró el nacimiento de movimientos culturales como la blaxploitation, la música hip hop, el parkour y el cine de Wakaliwood.

A deep exploration into the historical, cultural, political and musical elements that created the genre, featuring present-day conversations with music legends.

Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide phenomenon. His iconic images of kids sporting sneakers and savvy street style caught the essence of hip-hop as it exploded onto the streets of New York. Intimate interviews with Shabazz and hip hop pioneers explore the hundreds of individual stories and urban history behind a revolutionary cultural movement.

Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide phenomenon. His iconic images of kids sporting sneakers and savvy street style caught the essence of hip-hop as it exploded onto the streets of New York. Intimate interviews with Shabazz and hip hop pioneers explore the hundreds of individual stories and urban history behind a revolutionary cultural movement.

Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide phenomenon. His iconic images of kids sporting sneakers and savvy street style caught the essence of hip-hop as it exploded onto the streets of New York. Intimate interviews with Shabazz and hip hop pioneers explore the hundreds of individual stories and urban history behind a revolutionary cultural movement.

Documentary following the career of Brooklyn-born photographer Jamel Shabazz, who captured hip-hop in its infancy long before it became a worldwide phenomenon. His iconic images of kids sporting sneakers and savvy street style caught the essence of hip-hop as it exploded onto the streets of New York. Intimate interviews with Shabazz and hip hop pioneers explore the hundreds of individual stories and urban history behind a revolutionary cultural movement.

In the years before Ronald Reagan took office, Manhattan was in ruins. But true art has never come from comfort, and it was precisely those dire circumstances that inspired artists like Jim Jarmusch, Lizzy Borden, and Amos Poe to produce some of their best works. Taking their cues from punk rock and new wave music, these young maverick filmmakers confronted viewers with a stark reality that stood in powerful contrast to the escapist product being churned out by Hollywood.

In the late 1970s, the "greatest city in the world" was teetering on the edge of total chaos. A failed economy, crime and en mass housing corruption gave way to a city in crisis. Yet out of the economic and social strife that held the "Big Apple" hostage, a family of homegrown cultures that would forever change the world began to emerge. Downtown Calling not only documents, in detail, the evolution of New York City's fertile music and art subculture during this period, but how its collective output continues to play a prominent, driving role in the international fashion, art and music industries today.

This road movie explores the nature of the bond between twins by focusing on a love affair between a man and a woman, each of whom has a twin brother.

Documents the view and action outside director Charlie Ahearn's 43rd Street apartment window from 1981 to 1983.

Zoro es el escritor de graffiti más activo de Nueva York. Después de que su novia lo dejase, ésta empieza a salir con The Union, un grupo de graffiteros que se dedican a pintar por encargo. Ante el nuevo panorama, la prensa y las galerías de arte están interesadas en el mundo del graffiti. Mundo que se encuentra entre la encrucijada de la autenticidad del graffiti ilegal en los trenes y por otro lado, la proyección de los graffiteros en el mundo del arte y las galerías.

Zoro es el escritor de graffiti más activo de Nueva York. Después de que su novia lo dejase, ésta empieza a salir con The Union, un grupo de graffiteros que se dedican a pintar por encargo. Ante el nuevo panorama, la prensa y las galerías de arte están interesadas en el mundo del graffiti. Mundo que se encuentra entre la encrucijada de la autenticidad del graffiti ilegal en los trenes y por otro lado, la proyección de los graffiteros en el mundo del arte y las galerías.

Zoro es el escritor de graffiti más activo de Nueva York. Después de que su novia lo dejase, ésta empieza a salir con The Union, un grupo de graffiteros que se dedican a pintar por encargo. Ante el nuevo panorama, la prensa y las galerías de arte están interesadas en el mundo del graffiti. Mundo que se encuentra entre la encrucijada de la autenticidad del graffiti ilegal en los trenes y por otro lado, la proyección de los graffiteros en el mundo del arte y las galerías.

Zoro es el escritor de graffiti más activo de Nueva York. Después de que su novia lo dejase, ésta empieza a salir con The Union, un grupo de graffiteros que se dedican a pintar por encargo. Ante el nuevo panorama, la prensa y las galerías de arte están interesadas en el mundo del graffiti. Mundo que se encuentra entre la encrucijada de la autenticidad del graffiti ilegal en los trenes y por otro lado, la proyección de los graffiteros en el mundo del arte y las galerías.

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.

Real-life kung fu master Nathan Ingram stars in this gritty, low-budget martial arts epic as a local karate school owner who clashes with a gang of drug traffickers posing as the owners of a rival dojo. Director Charlie Ahearn (who helmed the landmark hip-hop film Wild Style) used the housing projects next to his New York Lower East Side apartment as his central location in this 1979 classic, shot on a vintage Super 8 camera.

An exploration of social schizophrenia in which terrorists consult their mothers before planting bombs, and the head of the New York City bomb squad succumbs to his dominatrix.

Charlie Ahearn revisits the Boogie Down two decades later with Tanzanian rapper Balozi Dola in tow for a bilingual MC battle. 2005, DVCam.