Shadows in the City

Shadows in the City — Plot

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
• Runtime
• 115 min
• Genres
• Drama, Horror
• Director
• Ari M. Roussimoff

Shadows in the City — Cast

Craig Smith Paul Mills Bruce Byron Frankie Jack Smith Spirit of Death Emile de Antonio Mystic Annie Sprinkle Ex-Girlfriend Taylor Mead Father

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Valerie Caris Prostitute Brinke Stevens Fortune Teller