Moments Like This Never Last
Director: Cheryl Dunn Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Rating: NR Release Year: 2020
Moments Like This Never Last is a filmic exploration of the life and legacy of the late artist Dash Snow. Born Dashiell Alexander Whitney Snow, Dash Snow rejected a life of privilege to make his own way as an artist on the streets of downtown New York City in the late 1990s. Developing from a notorious graffiti tagger into an international art star, he documented his drug- and alcohol-fueled nights with the surrogate family he formed with friends and fellow artists Ryan McGinley, Dan Colen and Kunle Martins before his death by heroin overdose in an East Village hotel room at the age of 27. Downtown was an abandoned wasteland that became ripe for artists to have their way, drawing the attention of the art world ready to cash in on it. High stakes, drugs and the pressure to keep producing took its toll becoming a cautionary tale and forever changing the course of art history.