Screening: The Sea Around Us
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Beneath the glittering surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a world of ancient and ongoing kinship—and a hidden legacy of destruction. Guided by the cosmologies of the Tongva and Acjachemen peoples and the relation to the abalone, this immersive journey into the ocean depths confronts a half-century of chemical dumping off the coast of Catalina Island, asking us to renew relations with a mother ocean that has been exploited. Created by artist Rebeca Méndez, The Sea Around Us is an immersive cinematic...