Earth Day Celebration: THE BLUE PLANET
SHORELINE CLEANUP AND FREE SCREENING
Join us for our third annual Earth Day celebration in collaboration with Laru Beya, Buena Onda Collective, and Jamaica Bay Rockaway Parks Conservancy.
THE BLUE PLANET by Franco Piavoli. 1982. 88 min.
“A poem, a voyage, a concert on nature, universe, life. A different image from the one we always see." ― Andrei Tarkovsky
A gorgeous meditation on Earth’s everyday beauty, Italian filmmaker Franco Piavoli's The Blue Planet is a rarely-screened treasure. Passing through the seasons of the year with nearly no dialogue, the film is guided by sights and sounds of running water, rustling leaves, people laboring and loving, and other wondrous symphonies of nature. Patiently moving through cycles of life — both the harsh and the soft — this film will lower your heart rate.
From 3-6pm 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).
At 6pm we’ll open the Arverne Cinema for the season. Food by Brothers! Local artist collective Buena Onda will create and display large cyanotypes using debris collected from the cleanup. There also will be a raffle for items donated by Patagonia and Blundstone, including boots and a wetsuit.
At 8pm the screening starts. Bring layers, it's still a little chilly in the evenings!
Earth Day events are free and open to the public.
Thanks to Mario and Franco Piavoli, and Simona Agnoli.
Thanks to Blundstone and Patagonia for their generous contributions to the raffle benefiting Laru Beya.
Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne Cinema in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.
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Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne Cinema in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.
RFF is 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, and by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall. RFF receives additional support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.