SLATER BRADLEY AND ED LACHMAN – SHADOW
2010-10-18A new video work by Slater Bradley in collaboration with Academy Award–nominated cinematographer Ed Lachman, takes as its inspiration the unfinished Hollywood film Dark Blood (1993), which was never completed due to the untimely death of its star, River Phoenix. Seventeen years later, Shadow presents a kind of prologue to the original film, revisiting Phoenix’s character (here, by Ben Brock) while creating a new narrative which, when woven together with the original, creates a labyrinthine tale that blurs the lines between illusion and reality.
Opposite – Production still from Shadow, 2010
Exhibition runs through to January 23rd, 2011
The Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. at 75th St.
New York
NY
10021
