MOAD at MDC: Screening of ‘In The Park’ & ‘New Town Utopia’

Thursday, October 10th at 6pm MOAD MDC presents The Film Series at Bill Cosford Cinema, University of Miami. Catch Orlando Jimenez Leal’s short film In the Park, capturing a sunny day in Miami’s Bayfront Park, before taking in New Town Utopia, a documentary feature about utopian dreams among a group of artists, poets, and musicians living in Essex. This Event is Free and Open to the Public, RSVP here.

In the Park (1962), 14 minutes, Directed by Orlando Jiménez-Leal. In the Park, is a trip to the past. The year is 1962. The subject, a Sunday day in Bay Front Park, Miami, when the world was still innocent. The hidden camera, the free cinema, allows us to observe from a distance, to be voyeurs without being discovered. We see young and old in a sweet-and-sour situation, which gives the viewer a strange nostalgic feeling.

New Town Utopia (2017), 80 minutes, Directed by Christopher Ian Smith. A journey of memory, place, and performance, New Town Utopia is a documentary feature about utopian dreams and concrete realities—the challenging, funny, and sometimes tragic story of the British new town of Basildon, Essex. Facing austerity, adversity and personal battles the artists, musicians, and poets of Basildon are individuals driven by their creative spirit to improve their community through art, poetry, music, and some rather angry puppets. New Town Utopia features Oscar-winning actor Jim Broadbent (Iris, Topsy-Turvy, Moulin Rouge) as the voice of Lewis Silkin MP.