NEW YORK, NY.- Artists have long engaged with the mythology of Hollywood cinema, creating a hybrid of art and cinema that has become an important strand of contemporary art. Shadow’ (2010, 13 ½ minutes) a video installation 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 owing to the untimely death of River Phoenix near the end of the film shoot. Lachman was the film’s cinematographer. In the original film, Phoenix plays a disturbed young half- Navajo widower who lives like a hermit on a nuclear testing site in the Nevada desert, waiting for the apocalypse and making Navajo kachina dolls that he believes have magic powers. Phoenix’s character’s wife was killed by radiation from the site. A married couple travelling across the desert become stranded in their car, and are rescued by the boy, who falls in love with the w