DVD
Shadowman
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, closed-captioned.
Publication Information
[New York, NY] : Film Movement, [2018]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (82 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
In the 1980s, Richard Hambleton was the Shadowman, a specter in the night who painted hundreds of startling silhouettes on the walls of lower Manhattan and, along with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, sparked the street art movement. After drug addiction and homelessness sent him spinning out of the art scene for 20 years, the Shadowman gets a second chance-- but will he take it? Shadowman plunges the viewer into the chaotic life of a forgotten artist, from early fame as a painter and denizen of the Lower East Side, through his struggles with heroin, to his surprising comeback as street art exploded to become one of the most popular and lucrative art movements in the world. Before Banksy, there was Hambleton.
Notes
Title from container.
Originally produced as a documentary in 2017.
Includes over 30 minutes of bonus footage.