Art Documentary SHADOWMAN Screens at Webster University January 12th-14th

SHADOWMAN, directed by Oren Jacoby, screens Friday January 12th through  Sunday January 14th at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). The movie starts each evening at 7:30pm.

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.

The critics dig SHADOWMAN!:

Frank Scheck at Hollywood Reporter says SHADOWMAN:

“Achieves its goal of shining a spotlight on its subject while delivering a fascinating true-life tale.”

“An incredibly dramatic documentary, award-winning filmmaker Oren Jacoby’s SHADOWMAN is a candid portrait of visual artist Richard Hambleton.”

 “SHADOWMAN is equal parts disturbing and engrossing; it’s a film grotesquely morbid yet beautiful, satisfying yet frustrating.”