A forgotten '80s indie film, No Picnic, has been re-released by filmmaker Philip Hartman, who started shooting a scrappy indie film in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. The film, which won a prize at Sundance and had a theatrical run before it disappeared, faded into obscurity. It is now being hailed as a chronicle of a forgotten era in downtown NYC, of independent moviemaking and an alternate version of the "Greed Is Good" go-go '80. Despite an extensive restoration and premiere at the Museum of Modern Art’s “To Save and Project” mini-fest, the film has been hailed as an important documentary of Hartman's making. The director's vision for the film is described as an attempt at a neo-noir parable about a lost paradise and a lost era of downtown NYC.