«SoHo was like this nirvana that as a young artist I wanted to go to,» says Robert Longo, whose first studio in New York was further downtown, near the South Street Seaport, a space he shared in the late»70s with his then - girlfriend, Cindy Sherman. (nytimes.com)
Allen Ruppersberg outside door of first studio after graduating from Chouinard Art Institute, 1967; courtesy the artist; (photo: Augusta Wood) (walkerart.org)
The opening titles announce the film as a co-production between Jia's Xstream Pictures and the Shanghai Film Group, marking this as the Chinese iconoclast's first studio film in a career of independent productions. (slantmagazine.com)