The Last Resort – TJF – Jewish Film Series
Date/Time
Date(s) - 02/14/2020
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
All Saints Cinema
Categories
The Tallahassee Jewish Federation is please to present our first film in the 2020 Jewish film series. The Last Resort is a celebration of some of Miami’s greatest visual artists and a stunning testament to a community all but forgotten…until now.
Long before Art Deco was a movement and prior to the arrival of the youth culture of MTV and Miami Vice, South Beach was home to the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. In The Last Resort, viewers embark on a journey to the iconic Miami Beach of yesterday thru the lens of young photographers Andy Sweet and Gary Monroe. With camera in hand, they embarked upon an ambitious 10-year project to document the aging population living in the sunburned paradise of 1970’s Miami Beach and into the changing, turbulent 1980’s. Working in different styles and approaches they captured the end of an era through engrossing black and white images by Monroe juxtaposed with Sweet’s captivating candy-hued color photos. The result is one of the most fascinating photographic documentation’s of a community ever caught on film.
The film will be presented on Friday, February 14 at 6 pm and again on Sunday February 16 at 2:30 and 5:00 pm at All Saints Cinema – 918 Railroad Avenue.