In a cinematic letter to his son, native Rapanui (Easter Island) filmmaker Sergio Mata’u Rapu explores the modern dilemma of their people, who risk losing everything to the globalizing effects […]

Static winter forms melt in sunlight.

Zoe Keller is a graphite artist creating large-scale, highly detailed drawings. Using the traditions of scientific illustration, she weaves complex visual narratives about at-risk species and wild places. Collapsing Time […]

The film follows award-winning public garden designer Lynden B. Miller as she explores the remarkable life and career of America’s first female landscape architect, Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959). Farrand was responsible […]

This film opens with the viewer awakening as if inside a restless dream, transformed into a strange vermin. The camera assumes the perspective of an insect burrowing through the dark […]

Co-Presented with the Japan Information and Culture Center, Embassy of Japan and The Freer Gallery of Art He lies among the shrubs and trees in his garden and observes the […]

This feature-length documentary presents the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Burtynsky makes large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes” — quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines, dams. He photographs civilization’s […]

When climate-change journalist Eiren Caffall is diagnosed with chronic kidney disease, she realizes that, like the planet, she is slowly drowning.

This feature documentary film brings together diverse stories from around the globe about our relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn from it, how we […]

A series of scientists (and, for good measure, a few nonscientists) travel to a plot of Maine land they have never seen before. One-by-one, through all four seasons, they walk […]