Documentary Screening: “The Experimental City” ($19)

Event Date: November 16, 2017

Showtimes

Thu Nov 16, 2017 at 7:15 PM 

Location: IFC Center, 323 6th Ave, New York, NY 10014

Expected to Attend: Director Chad Freidrichs, producer Jaime Freidrichs

NYC PREMIERE

In the 1960s, frustrated by the growing problem of urban pollution, Athelstan Spilhaus, a visionary scientist and futurist comic strip writer, assembled a team of experts to develop a bold experiment: the Minnesota Experimental City (MXC). MXC would be the city of the future, a domed metropolis for 250,000 pioneering residents, built from scratch and using cutting-edge technology to prevent urban sprawl and pollution. Things didn’t quite go as planned, as explored in Chad Friedrichs’ fascinating look back at the would-be city of tomorrow.

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