Shadows in the City (1991)
Overview
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
Cast
Craig Smith
Paul Mills
Bruce Byron
Frankie
Jack Smith
Spirit of Death
Emile de Antonio
Mystic
Annie Sprinkle
Ex-Girlfriend
Taylor Mead
Father
Brinke Stevens
Fortune Teller
Nick Zedd
Demagogue
Kembra Pfahler
Joe Coleman
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