Movie

Chasing the Dragon (1982)

• October 5, 1982
• 43m

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.

Director

Michel Auder

Writers

Michel Auder, Eric Bogosian, Michael Zwack

Starring

Eric Bogosian, Viva, Geraldine Smith