Between Neighborhoods
Film Screening
Event Description
Between Neighborhoods contemplates histories that orbit Robert Moses's Unisphere in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, since it went up as the "theme center" for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Sixty years to the day after that fair closed on October 17, 1965, LPAC screens Seth Fein's 2024 reboot of his prize-winning documentary essay, which works in split-screen between original and archival footage to consider the present and past –– of imperialism and immigration, corporate and social globalizations –– that surround the last NYWF's singular architectural legacy across liberal and neoliberal regimes, between the age of Moses and that of Trump and AOC. Based in years of independent filming and multiarchival research, Fein completed this major revision in honor of Unisphere's sesquicentennial. A conversation with the filmmaker follows the screening. You can see and read more about Between Neighborhoods at sevenlocalfilm.com
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Event Date:
Friday October 17
at 6:30pm
Location:
Mainstage Theater
ABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:
FILMMAKER
SETH FEIN​
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Seth Fein is a historian and filmmaker. He operates Seven Local Film, where he founded it, in Queens. In addition to Between Neighborhoods, his documentaries include Small Kitchens (2021), about work and food under the 7 train in Jackson Heights and Elmhurst, The Actor in His Labyrinth (2023), which maps an artist's journey from Colombian TV star to nomadic NYC actor, and Daddy's Boys (2025), which contemplates the adjacent politics of Andrew Cuomo and Donald Trump through their adjacent Queens boyhoods. Fein's work has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Harvard's Warren Center, where he was a fellow in Multimedia History, as well as the Queens Council on the Arts. Fein holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Texas at Austin and has published extensively about the history of Mexican Cinema in the Americas. He has taught film and history at Yale, NYU, Barnard and Columbia, and Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema as well as LaGuardia Community College. His recent film criticism has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books and The Village Voice.
MODERATORS
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DON CATO
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Don Cato is the Artistic Director of Queens World Film Festival and an award-winning filmmaker whose work has screened internationally. He has directed acclaimed shorts and features, including Dixie Lanes and Be My Oswald, and continues to provide filmmaking experience to young filmmakers from across the city.
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KATHA CATO
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Katha Cato is an award-winning arts leader who pioneered long-form improv in New York and later directed youth programs at Henry Street Settlement, earning the 2015 PASEsetter Award. As the Executive Director of Queens World Film Festival with over 30 years of experience, she continues to create innovative programs that bring people together through theatre, film, and community.