Shadows in the City

The story

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.

Cast & crew

Craig SmithPaul Mills

Bruce ByronFrankie

Jack SmithSpirit of Death

Emile de AntonioMystic

Annie SprinkleEx-Girlfriend

Taylor MeadFather

Valerie Caris

Valerie CarisProstitute

Brinke StevensFortune Teller

Nick ZeddDemagogue

Kembra PfahlerCast

Joe ColemanProfessor Mephisto