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Chasing the Dragon (1982)
Directed by Michel Auder
Overview
a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor—becomes the “ghost” of the person, a doubled identity that can never fully capture its subject. The work also conjures the spectral presence of a long-gone New York City, an uncanny body-double on the verge of austerity and collapse.
Length 43 minutes
Actors
Eric Bogosian | Viva | Geraldine Smith | Michael Zwack | Alice Neel | Alexandra Auder | Nina Gaidarova