The Tramp's New World

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, Chaplin's 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.

• Zoe BeloffDirector
• James AgeeWriter

• Diana DeLaCruzBeatriz Valdes
• Steven RattazziJames W. Fay
• Alison CimmetLois Grenadine
• Adebowale AdebiyiConstruction worker
• Aaron Kingsley AdetolaChild
• Manuel CabreroSubway rider
• Eli Lehan DewJames Agee as a child
• Steve EspinolaNews photographer
• Steve FrenchChaplin (voice)
• Marcel McAlpinChild
• Cameron PowGeorge La Monte
• Rebecca RiveraSubway rider