Co-presented with the National Gallery of Art
Followed by a conversation with filmmakers Isabelle Carbonell & Duane Peterson III. Moderated by Joanna Raczynska (Film Programmer, National Gallery of Art)
Please Note: Seating at this screening is first-come first-served. You are welcome to RSVP for your own scheduling and recordkeeping, but this reservation will not be required to enter.
A Mirror of the Cosmos is a sci-fi feature documentary which explores how the Mar Menor lagoon, located in southeastern Spain and considered a utopian paradise, went to the brink of extinction and beyond. Opening with a conversation between the moon and the sea about environmental violence, the film explores how the unlikely relationships between invasive blue crabs, nitrates, and mining deposits in Mar Menor deeply intertwine to tell the larger story of capitalism’s extractive, cumulative effects on the environment over time. The lagoon is a microcosm of the so-called Anthropocene, or ‘the Age of Man’. Ultimately, it asks what kinds of futures are possible, and can we adapt?