Los Angeles: Review of ‘The Garden’

LAist, 18 October

Tucked secretly away amongst residential condos and too-snug street parking sits The Schindler House, a small artistic enclave that is part of the larger Mak Center. The unobtrusive works of modern beauty blend seamlessly with the grass and garden that occupy a worthy portion of the smallish plot. And perhaps it is here, on the oblong lawn as the sun sets over consistently progressive West Hollywood, that films like The Garden truly deserve to be screened.

Produced and directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, The Garden is a documentary four years in the making, although the story is still being written today. It is raw footage of the best and worst that mankind, and our own little Angelic corner, has to offer. There are heroes and villains, there are the concerned and the outraged, there are those who have been left behind, and those who – in the face of adversity – simply never ran. But ultimately, it is the simple story about the life cycle of a single garden.