A prismatic portrait of a longtime denizen of the Downtown NY art world, critic, curator and collector Adrian Dannatt, once described by Air Mail as ‘one of those wonderful Zelig-like figures on New York’s arts and literary scene…as well as an artist from a different era—specifically, the wide open 80s.’ Here he ponders wryly on his eponymous exhibition "Doomed and Famous: Selections from the Adrian Dannatt Collection" at the celebrated Miguel Abreu Gallery on the Lower East Side.

This essay film is also a cinematic bagatelle, a glancing ghost story that features cameo performances by a gamut of notorious Manhattan figures, from artists such as Amy Sillman (playing Dorothea Tanning), Hugo Guinness and Julian Lethbridge, to writers like Dean Kissick and Anthony Haden-Guest, not to mention playwright Peter BD and that No Wave film star Eric Mitchell; a phantom chorus accompanying the loving revelation of important works by everyone from Noguchi and Norman Lewis to Rammellzee, Nancy Spero, Guy Debord, Beaux Mendes and Nan Goldin. Fully capturing the rich tones of the artwork on display, the sumptuous lensing is by the singular Sean Price Williams.