“Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge famously wrote in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in 1798. How can we retool survival—for all the Earth’s species—in the age of toxic seas and desertification? These three films delve into hybrid art/science practices to revitalize our ideas about pollution and the wasteland.
Watch a panel with filmmakers Taylor Hess, Noah Hutton, and Mia Makela moderated by programming intern Jamie Uy here