Chasing the Dragon (1982)

9.0/10 • 43 min •

Overview

a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor—becomes the “ghost” of the person, a doubled identity that can never fully capture its subject. The work also conjures the spectral presence of a long-gone New York City, an uncanny body-double on the verge of austerity and collapse.

Cast

Eric Bogosian

Viva

Geraldine Smith

Alexandra Auder

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