Mamdani and Trump both love Robert Moses’s Unisphere.  As mayor-elect, Mamdani held his first news conference in front of the giant stainless-steel globe that Moses built in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park for the last New York World’s Fair. And the current president plagiarized it in both Midtown Manhattan and in Atlantic City.  What can that convergence tell us?  Join Seth Fein on Unisphere’s 62nd birthday to view and discuss the 2024 reboot of his award-winning documentary essay –– BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS (110′) ––BETWEEN NEIGHBORHOODS (110′, 2024) works in split-screen between original and archival footage to contemplate the histories of immigration and imperialism that orbit the Unisphere between the racist authoritarian regimes of Robert Moses and Donald Trump, across liberal and neoliberal eras.

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