Shadowman
[A] heartbreaking doc.
Shadowman
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.
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.
Genre
Documentary,
Bio-pic,
Art & Artists
Runtime
81
Language
English
Director
Oren Jacoby
Awards:
Nominee, Audience Award ~ Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival
Nominee, Jury Award ~ Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter
Oren Jacoby’s documentary 'Shadowman' chronicles the life and career of Richard Hambleton, one of three figures who dominated the outsider art scene in 1980s New York. But unlike his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, who, as one of the film’s commentators waggishly puts it, each ...
Played at
NoHo 7 12.08.17 - 12.14.17
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