Shadows in the City (1991)
101 min
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.
- Release date
- August 23, 1991
- Country of origin
- United States
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
- Taylor Mead as Father
- Valerie Caris as Prostitue
- Joe Coleman as Professor Mephisto
- Rhonda Scherich as Mother
- Brinke Stevens as Fortune Teller
Crew
- Ari M. Roussimoff · Director
- Ari M. Roussimoff · Writer
- Jim Grib · Producer
- Vincent Manes · Cinematographer
- Ari M. Roussimoff · Cinematographer
- Paul Savage · Editor