Shadows in the City (1991)

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 Yorks 1980s No Wave film scene Shot over seven years in Manhattan Brooklyn and Queens painterperformer Ari Roussimoffs only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification