The Tramps New World (2022)

In 1948 the James Agee wrote a scenario for his lifelong hero Charlie Chaplin Deeply disturbed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Agee imagined New York destroyed In the ruins Chaplins Little Tramp builds a shack in Central Park Gradually a small community of the dispossessed grows up around him For Agee his story was a thought experiment about how one might start again in the aftermath of disaster to go beyond capitalism and just how hard that is in the face of our modern technological world The film focuses on his imaginative journey and what it might mean for us today