Earth Day Celebration: LAST THINGS
Join us for a shoreline cleanup, cyanotype workshop, and free screening as part of our fourth annual Earth Day celebration in partnership with Laru Beya and Buena Onda Collective.
LAST THINGS by Deborah Stratman. 2023. US/Portugal/France. French & English with English subtitles. 50 min.
A glittering view of life on Earth from the perspective of the rocks and minerals that came before us and will outlast us. Moving between science and poetry, microscopic forms and vast landscapes, Deborah Stratman’s crystalline, geohistorical inquiry seeks a picture of evolution without humans at the center.
Preceded by:
POWERS OF TEN by Charles & Ray Eames. 1977. US. 9 min.
In a wondrous expedition of scale, famed American designers Charles and Ray Eames’s short film zooms through inner and outer space at magnitudes of ten. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, we are transported to the edges of the universe before plummeting back to Earth with ten times more magnification every ten seconds.
From 4-6pm there will be a shoreline cleanup at Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary, an important natural area on Jamaica Bay. Its salt marshes provide habitat for local wildlife and migratory birds and help clean our waterways. Please enter on Bayfield Ave and Beach 65th street (See below map image).
During the cleanup, we’ll create large cyanotypes using some of the collected debris in a collaborative project led by Buena Onda Collective.
At 6pm we’ll open the Annex Cinema. The screening will start at 7pm. All Earth Day events are free and open to the public.
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Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne and Annex Cinemas in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.
We are proud to be sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry. Rockaway Film Festival made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Rockaway Film Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Art. We receive additional support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.