Shadows in the City

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.

Craig Smith

Paul Mills

Bruce Byron

Frankie

Jack Smith

Spirit of Death

Emile de Antonio

Mystic

Annie Sprinkle

Ex-Girlfriend

Taylor Mead

Father

Valerie Caris

Prostitute

Brinke Stevens

Fortune Teller

Nick Zedd

Demagogue

Kembra Pfahler

Joe Coleman

Professor Mephisto

• Ari M. RoussimoffDirector
• Jim GribProducer

Release date

August 23, 1991

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 55m

Genres

Drama, Horror