WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, May 4 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute screens "Things to Come" in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. 

 

Presented in conjunction with the Clark's exhibition "Portals: The Visionary Architecture of Paul Goesch," this is the fourth event in the Clark's five-part series Visionary Architecture on Film. The film series explores themes related to Paul Goesch's life and work in early twentieth-century Germany. 

 

According to a press release:

 

H.G. Wells wrote Things to Come (1936; 1 hour, 46 minutes) in response to Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927). The film spans 1936–2036 as the citizens of Everytown, England envision the future of their city and debate the role technology should play. It is set in a subterranean cave, the antithesis to Metropolis's skyscrapers, and includes abstract sequences designed by Bauhaus artist Lászlo Moholy-Nagy. In one scene, a child of the future remembers a bygone city, saying, "What a strange place New York was, all sticking up."

 

Free and open to the public; no registration is required. The Clark's Visionary Architecture on Film series is organized by Ella Comberg, MA '24 in the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art.