Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival: Screening with Sasha Wortzel
Description:
On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) hosted a virtual screening and conversation with artist and filmmaker Sasha Wortzel about community and environmental stewardship. The program includes discussion about Wortzel’s early film "Paint It Again" (2010), as well as the in-progress documentary “River of Grass.” Inspired by Marjory Stoneman Douglas's 1947 book, “The Everglades: River of Grass,” this film ties Florida’s current vulnerability to climate change to ongoing legacies of settler colonialism and waves of displacement. All artwork clips have been removed from this event recording. Wortzel was joined by Houston Cypress (Otter Clan of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida), artist and founder of Love the Everglades Movement and consulting producer on “River of Grass”; and Saisha Grayson, time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. This program was part of SAAM’s fourth annual Virtual Women Filmmakers Festival, which was presented completely online and ran from March 1-23, 2022, in honor of Women’s History Month. In 2022, the festival focused on the theme of “(Re)Making Space,” and featured the following artists: Sasha Wortzel, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, and Shirin Neshat. Through their artistic choices, the conventions they overturn, and the visionary insights they bring to each frame, each artist uses their cameras and imaginations to reshape how we see the world. Through powerful and experimental artworks, they invite us to examine our relationships to and deeper understandings of chosen landscapes. This program was made possible by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, Because of Her Story.
Video Duration:
1 hr 2 min 20 sec
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