Film: Playtime

Playtime offers a playful yet sharply observed vision of life set in a bustling maze of glass buildings, gridded streets, and impersonal office spaces in a hypermodern Paris. Screened in conjunction with the exhibition Peter Waite: Social Memory, Paintings 1987–2025, the film complements the artist’s paintings of unpopulated airports, schools, and institutional spaces—environments suspended in time. Together, they ask: how do we move through space? And what do our built environments reveal about us?


Directed by Jacques Tati. 1967. France (French with English subtitles). 2 hours, 4 minutes. Rated G.


$12; $10 seniors and students with ID; $8 members and Hartford residents. Museum admission not included. Registration encouraged.

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