Ecologies of Place: Experimental Film and Video

featuring works that celebrate and reflect on the natural world -- how it shapes our identities, and our symbiotic yet often destructive relationship to it.

The Pine Barrens Project is curated by Philadelphia artist and filmmaker and Pew Arts & Heritage Fellow David Scott Kessler whose feature-length film The Pine Barrens will be shown on Feb. 12 accompanied by a live score by The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra. Influenced by the distinct ecology and history of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, The Pine Barrens Project explores cultural and creative relationships with the natural world with works by artists inspired by the region, including Land art pioneer Nancy Holt, Nobel Prize-winning artist Maya Lin, and Philadelphia video installation artists and Guggenheim Foundation Fellows Matthew Suib & Nadia Hironaka.

“The Pine Barrens” by David Scott Kessler with live score by The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra
"Pine Barrens" by Nancy Holt
"Field Resistance" by Emily Drummer
"Ghost Forest" by Maya Lin, directed by Michael Fodera and produced by Madison Square Park Conservancy.
"Landscape to be Invented" by Josh Weissbach
"Ten Fires" by David Scott Kessler and The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra
"Field Companion (Chapter Seven: You're Not Alone)" by Matt Suib and Nadia Hironaka

INFO AND TICKETS

Madison Square Park & Fotografiska
Maya Lin - ‘Ghost Forest’ Environmental Events Series
November 9th

Artist and designer Maya Lin has installed 49 dead cedar trees in Midtown Manhattan's Madison Square Park to raise awareness of ecosystem die-off due to climate change.

Called Ghost Forest, the project was commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy. The dead Atlantic white cedar trees have been erected on The Oval Lawn of the park.

The Pine Barrens will screen accompanied by a live score by The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra at Fotografiska. The screening/performance will be viewable both in person and virtually.

September 4th 2021
also featuring music by Glenn Jones, KooF
Sound sculptures by Raul Romero
Films by Nancy Holt, Nancy Holt, Sean Hanley, Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, and Josh Weissbach