Gowanus Current Free Community Screening

Please join us to see the documentary film Gowanus Current, followed by a discussion with the filmmakers Jamie Courville & Chris Reynolds.

About this Event

Doors will open at 6:30. Seats are limited and reservations are required.

Decades of industrial waste and raw sewage have turned Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal into one of the nation’s most toxic bodies of water. The arrival of a billion dollar EPA cleanup and a massive city-led rezoning herald a new era, but what's of value in a neighborhood, and who gets to decide? Made over the course of ten years, Gowanus Current employs a strictly observational approach to examine the convictions of this diverse community and the textures of its landscape.

“Gowanus Current is more than simply an artful account of community and grassroots activism, though it fulfills that promise superbly. The film is also a pure cinematic and sensory immersion in glinting water, straining machines, and passionate, eloquent humans as they struggle to make sense of this poisoned garden we’ve made of the world.” – Jonathan Lethem

The running time of the film is 86 minutes. There will be a discussion with the filmmakers after th screening.

Find more information about the film on our website.

This screening of Gowanus Current is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council.

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