A festive free screening that celebrates public art & plastic activism. The screening is followed by a virtual artist talk.
Tuesday, May 10th at 7:00pm
This screening is the final event of Arlington’s Eco-Week, a series of diverse community events celebrating sustainability, eco-activism, and preservation of our environment. Full schedule of events may be found by tapping the image below…
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Award-winning Brooklyn-based Robin Frohardt’s lyrical film explores an insidious aspect of throw-away plastic: it lasts forever. A series of stories traverse ancient history, the present day, and a future era – “after the robot wars.” In this dystopian future, a plastic bottle is carefully excavated and exhibited as a precious artifact of a vanished civilization – ours. Using whimsical puppets and beautifully crafted staging to achieve a kind of visual poetry, Frohardt hopes to encourage a different way of thinking about the foreverness of plastic, the permanence of the disposable, and that there is no ‘away’ when we throw something out. As Frohardt says, “There is great humor to be found in the pitfalls of capitalism. Humor and satire can be powerful tools for social criticism especially with issues that feel too sad and overwhelming to confront directly.”
The film will also be available on May 10th for free streaming at home at 7:00 pm and preregistration is required.
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Film by Robin Frohardt, with original score by Freddi Price.
Executive Produced by Pomegranate Arts.
The screening will be followed by conversation between Robin Frohardt and Arlington’s Artist-in-Residence Michelle Lougee on Art, Activism and Alastic. Frohardt’s film was originally made as part of The Plastic Bag Store, an internationally-touring storefront installation which recreates a grocery market with plastic bags. Lougee also uses plastic bags to crochet her meticulously crafted sculpture. During her Arlington residency in 2019-2020, Lougee worked with more than 100 community volunteers to transform thousands of plastic bags into 38 works of sculpture to call attention to micro-plastic-polution invading our waterways. The sculptures are hanging in trees along the Bikeway near Spy Pond and will be taken down this June.
More information about Michelle Lougee’s residency and Arts Arlington may be found by tapping the image below…