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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Craig Smith
Paul Mills
Known for
Bad Taste
Bruce Byron
Frankie
Known for
The Mummy Returns
The Double
Ari M. Roussimoff
Known for
Brain Damage
Frankenhooker
John Forgione
Jack Smith
Spirit of Death
Also in
Blonde Cobra
Chumlum
Jim Grib
Emile de Antonio
Mystic
Also in
Mr. Hoover and I
Drunk
Robert Perlow
Annie Sprinkle
Ex-Girlfriend
Also in
War Is Menstrual Envy
Affliction
Jurgen Probst
Taylor Mead
Father
Also in
Coffee and Cigarettes
Midnight Cowboy
Horst Wiedler
Ari M. Roussimoff Director
United States release August 23, 1991 · Produced in United States
Production
United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 23, 1991
Theatrical · (New York City, New York)
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