Eric Mitchell

American actor

PersonhumanQ16162117

Born: 20th century
Birthplace: France
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: film director
, actor
, screenwriter
Languages spoken, written or signed: English

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Eric Mitchell is a French born American writer, director, and actor who moved to downtown New York City in the early 1970s. He has acted in many No Wave films such as Permanent Vacation (1980) by Jim Jarmusch, but is best known for his own films that are usually written and directed by him: Kidnapped, Red Italy, Underground U.S.A. and The Way It Is or Eurydice in the Avenues, starring Steve Buscemi, Vincent Gallo, Mark Boone Junior, and Rockets Redglare. Mitchell worked out of New York City's sordid East Village area in conjunction with Colab's X Motion Picture Magazine and other performance artists and noise musicians. There he created a series of scruffy, deeply personal, short Super 8mm and 16mm films in which he combined darkly sinister images to explore the manner in which the individual is constrained by society.

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UUnderground U.S.A.1980 · 1980 film by Eric Mitchell

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Sex or gender: male
Given name: Eric
Family name: Mitchell
Native language: English
Writing language: English

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