Moments Like This Never Last

I didn't do anything though! I didn't do anything!

You fucking smacked the bottle.

I did not! I didn't do it - I swear to God it wasn't me

- That's because I didn't do it! - C'mon, yeah keep going

Be fair.

Officer, I swear to you, I didn't...

I argued with him, but I did not hit him.

I can't really say that I have a title at this point,

I'm working on it but Dash Snow.

So what keeps you alive?

Four big bottles of water a day,

two packs of Marlboro reds and...

What keeps me alive, shit...

I'm in love with this city.

I have a permanent bond, you know,

it's in my blood.

I love to love it.

I hate hating it.

It's the worst place to be

if you're not happy there, so it's a thin line

between love and hate.

I'll tell you what I don't believe in,

can I do that?

All right, I don't believe in laws

or the system by any means whatsoever.

I try not to obey them at any time.

That's what I believe in not believing in.

I was taking pictures and making work for a long time

before I'd show anyone.

I'd only show my friends,

I mean I have no shame, I'm not ashamed

of anything, I don't care about what people see,

but for me, this is not for anyone,

this is for us, it's like a really pure moment.

No no yeah that really happened.

Your wife

Oh, wow...

Dash, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you, what's your name?

Chrissy

- Nice to meet you - And that's George

Take it easy!

That was my first solo show,

it was an honest portrayal of what was going on,

you know?

I'm a pretty dark person, I thought about ending it

a million times.

Something that I've learned

is art doesn't just happen,

it doesn't just appear out of the ether.

Individuals have to make it happen.

He was the most charismatic artist I'd met

since Jean-Michel Basquiat,

who also embodied so much of his aesthetic in his person.

So he had this kind of situationist idea

of psychogeography and he would just wander the city

looking for sites to take polaroids

To tag whatever.

We're talking about the 2000s, it was sort of pre-internet.

So artists would gather together

and just talk to one another

rather than communicate over social media or whatever.

One of the last moments where New York city

itself was the sort of studio and the crucible

for these ideas and artworks, not the world.

And it was conceived of as a completely collaborative work

fueled by a certain kind of bravado,

a certain kind of art-making, by drugs.

It felt as if that energy that had been the domain

of musicians was being encapsulated in the art world

Dash was such an influential figure in this scene.

He really was at the center.

This is like typical night out Dan's doing a bump,

Dash is wearing chain mail for no reason.

He was so many different things

to so many different people that it's really

hard to understand him as a complete person

'cause you only got one part of it

whereas somebody else might have gotten another part.

That's why I think it's interesting to try to do this film

to like piece it all together and try to explain honestly

your best version of who you believe he is.

You know what I mean?

They loved to take the heads off of my barbies

and throw those out the window,

the doorman would come to our apartment

and be like, is this yours?

You know what I mean, just like...

Can I take a picture with the (indistinct)

You got to get in the light though.

Is this thing on?

I see a red light.

When you're 12 and you're out in the middle

of the night and you're in a place where nobody

else is supposed to be and you got free reign

and you see this incredible thing that's huge

in the dark in the tunnel, it was amazing.

You know when you got to a museum or a gallery

and you're like, you can't stop looking at a painting,

it was that, turned up.

Just because of the environment.

It's a fucking addiction you know,

it's just in your blood and that's it.

You do it all the time

and you know, you become a fanatic

and he's a fucking beast.

This is when I first met Dash.

The way I met him was funny.

I used to go to this place called the freedom tunnels,

the Amtrak tunnels.

Because it was near my house where I grew up.

I went in there one day.

I got chased out

by some guys with pipes,

Share 37 and Mars 69.

Yo, he actually came up to me,

told me and Mars, yo, what's up?

They didn't rob me with the pipes, obviously,

they bought me a forty and we hung out, you know?

Sace, myself.

I'd been doing it for about a year and half

and they kind of schooled me a little bit,

gave me some letters, whatever,

and at first, I was doing what they were giving me

and I was like, fuck this, I wanna do what I want to do.

So I added an R, as a desperate attempt

to try to make it at least a little bit more

interesting because it was just like the stupidest name.

Sace.

I just did that one the other night.

I like it because there's no rooftops on C,

so that one kind of sticks out, you know?

I'd like to say I climbed,

but I know someone who lives in the building.

My dad used to live down here

because I grew up in Midtown,

but I remember coming down here

I guess like mid, late 80s

it was pretty... out of hand.

Manhattan, New York City was not like it is now,

where like Downtown is fucking Beverly Hills,

like it wasn't a crazy barrier that you had to be

a bazillionaire to live anywhere.

You know?

It was more of just, a neighborhood

you know what I mean,

And we were kids, you skate, you write,

you hang out, you want to be a bad kid,

you want to be cool and we just thought we were ill.

I always had a psychotic, like unhealthy amount

of freedom as a young person.

What's the other name?

That's my partner in crime, Glace.

G-L-A-C-L, Glace, no meaning whatsoever, I just like

messing around with the letters.

When did you first meet Dash?

I was walking through Central Park, bump into like

25 other people who I had problems with.

I told them that I'd fight any two of them,

they're like, okay, who do you want to fight?

I said I would fight this kid Louie and then Dash.

They wouldn't let me fight Dash,

Louie slammed my head into a brick wall.

Coming through folks, thank you, coming through.

The police came, we shook hands and we ended up hanging out,

throwing watermelons at cars,

smoking weed, causing trouble

and from that day forward, we were just pals.

Thinking back on my own history and then a son now,

I don't know, it's kind of a daunting thing.

I had no boundaries, no rules, no nothing.

I was living in this house where there was like

these big drug dealers, like in the Projects,

in the south Bronx

for three weeks and my one memory of this was like

doing coke with these 30-something year old men

and I'm like 14 and I really looked up to these guys,

like old school graffiti guys, you know,

and like four or five little Puerto-Rican kids

and black kids running all around while we're doing coke

and I think one of them had like his mistress kind of

situation in the house with the kids and the mother

of the kids came and freaked out and was like

"Who's this fucking white boy

in our house, you're giving him cocaine,

he's a teenager, we're gonna get arrested,"

and he had to make me leave,