Film Forum

On Thursday, September 27 at 8:15, director Charlie Ahearn will take part in a Q&A following a screening of his film Wild Style.

Charlie Ahearn is a film director, author and cultural artist. After directing other films such as Fear of Fiction and artist documentaries Ahearn co-authored book Yes Yes Y’all, released in 2002 was an oral history of the first decade of Hip Hop with many photos by Ahearn. Wild Style The Sampler by Ahearn was published in 2007 on the film's 25th anniversary. Ahearn has been producing documentaries such as Richard Hunt Sculptor 2010, Jamel Shabazz Street Photographer 2011 and Hip Hop musical shorts, his latest being All City Take It To The Bridge. Recently Ahearn exihibited the Scratch Ecstasy Exibition at PPOW with a slide show, videos, photographs, and silkscreen paintings. Ahearn resides in New York City.

Expatriate Detroiter Mike Rubin is a writer living in Brooklyn. His work currently appears in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Men’s Journal, Red Bull Music Academy, and Victory Journal. From 1994 to 2003 he was a senior contributing writer at SPIN, and his work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, GQ, and The Village Voice. Since 1987 he has been one of the editors of Motorbooty, a Detroit-based, independently published satirical journal which has been described as "the only good fanzine in America" and "the Spy of the rock world." He is currently at work on his first book.

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