Between Neighborhoods
Film Screening

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