The Tramp's New World
62 mins
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.
Diana DeLaCruz
Beatriz Valdes
Adebowale Adebiyi
Construction worker
Manuel Cabrero
Subway rider
Eli Lehan Dew
James Agee as a child
Steve Espinola
News photographer
Steve French
Chaplin (voice)
Marcel McAlpin
Child
Rebecca Rivera
Subway rider
Gunnar Theel
News cameraman
Anju Vallares
Child
Sky Vega
Child
Eric Muzzy
Production Design
Anna Khromova
Sound Mixer
Joel Crane
Assistant Camera
Erika Munro
Costume Design
Eric Muzzy
Editor
Eric Muzzy
Colorist
Eric Muzzy
Cinematography
Jennifer Peralta-Ajemian
Casting
Timothy Amatulli
Key Grip
Brittany Jeffery
Grip
John Rossi
Gaffer
Eric Muzzy
Art Direction