River of Grass
- Tue, May 19
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Director: Sasha Wortzel Run Time: 83 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 2025
Starring: Betty Osceola
Producers: Danielle Varga, Sasha Wortzel
Artist and Filmmaker Sasha Wortzel joins us in the microcinema for a screening of her dreamy and poetic documentary River of Grass.
River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, “The Everglades: River of Grass,” (1947), which transformed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today.
Interweaving Douglas’s writing, present-day verité, and archival glimpses, River of Grass reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and inextricably shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together.
“Wortzel’s film is a clarion call to protect Florida’s greatest resource.” – RogerEbert.com
“A variety of perspectives add up to something as exquisitely crystalline, allowing you to get lost in its beauty without losing sight of how easily broken it can be.” -The Moveable Feast
“A rare environmental film to succeed both in expressing collective grief about climate change and inspiring activism to adapt and resist further depredations.“- Filmmaker Magazine
Sasha Wortzel is a celebrated artist, with work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places.