CHARLES is an immersive, highly empathetic portrait of a homeless schizophrenic man living on the streets of Oklahoma City.

Single Channel Video Installation

World Premiere:
The National Portrait Gallery - Canberra

Duration:
6 mins

SYPNOPSIS

In CHARLES, a middle aged man appears in a state of gentle transcendent repose in this meditative reflection on identity, his eyes closed for the duration of the portrait.

The hovering spectral camerawork by Germain McMicking opens an porous, intimate collective space that conjoins us with Charles as we momentarily step outside of time.

After the artist struck up a friendship with Charles, discovering in the process that he had a strong relationship to his dreams, Courtin-Wilson decided to shoot the portrait only a few feet from where Charles slept each evening - at the back of a local 7/11 at 1 o’clock in the morning.

WINNER - Digital Portraiture Prize 2016.