Image via Matthew Silva Filmmaker Matthew Silva is a middle/high school video production teacher hoping to make a documentary the abandoned ruins of the 1964 World’s Fair at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. This eloquent trailer was created as a part of a fundraiser for the film, “Modern Ruin: A World’s Fair Pavilion,” which can be supported on GoFundMe, but he’s also launching a Kickstarter on January 25th. This film tells the story of the Pavilion during the glory days of the Fair, and chronicles its demise over the past 50 years, from a 1960s concert venue and 1970s roller rink, through the years of neglect and the growing advocacy efforts to save and re-purpose the structure The Tent of Tomorrow and the New York Pavilion stand as iconic yet mysterious landmarks in Queens, and Matthew is spurred by a disbelief that such a building, designed by the famous architect Philip Johnson could become a ruin. Says Silva, the structure, “sits as a… Read More