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.
Ari M. Roussimoff
Director
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
The Surrender59%
What Maisie Knew71%
TalhotBlond63%
Chatroom58%
The Truth About Emanuel59%
The Transfiguration59%
Baby Blues60%
Hellion58%
Rose Plays Julie58%
Charm City Kings78%
A Dry White Season67%
The Dogs66%
Older Gods62%
Kisses71%
Babylon69%
Savaged66%
Hello63%
Starving in Suburbia65%
The Eyes of My Mother61%
The Lady Vanishes64%
