Shadows in the City

Release Date: 1991-08-23

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.

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Cast

Craig Smith

as Paul Mills

Bruce Byron

as Frankie

Jack Smith

as Spirit of Death

Emile de Antonio

as Mystic

Annie Sprinkle

as Ex-Girlfriend