Please join us for a free screening of Miami Beach Elegy, a new short film by Bay area artist Chip Lord, founding partner of Ant Farm. After the screening, the audience is invited to join the conversation and discussion, moderated by Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Fereshteh Toosi.

Miami Beach Elegy is a visual poem to remember Miami Beach as it was in the early 21st century – a colorful canary in the mine shaft of climate change. Shot in observational style and using haunting music by composer Hayden Pedigo, Lord has fashioned a beautiful, dark landscape portrait of place. Like biologists studying tree frogs in central Panama as they go extinct, Lord is “trying to catalogue what was there before it was lost.”

“By the turn of the next century, global sea levels will have risen by one to four feet, potentially turning hundreds of millions of people into refugees.” – New York Times Magazine, Aug 5, 2018