When we vocalize, we share and transform air, connecting our bodies to each other and the non-human world. 🍃
A 40-min film screening of the community-made environmental justice film Breath Work, focused on the air pollution caused by shipping and oil extraction in Long Beach.
We will do some collective breathing, watch the film together, and discuss the impacts of air pollution in our community. How might we come together in the fight for clean air?
The film includes both english & spanish closed captions.
Breath Work (40 min) is an experimental opera that explores breath as resistance. Part documentary, part performative ritual, it was created by a group of 13 local community members aged 11-65 in Long Beach, CA. This area is home to massive oil production as well as one of the largest ports in the world, where 25% of imported goods enter the US by sea. In the film, shipping infrastructure, railyards, freeways, and oil refineries provide a striking backdrop for scenes of solidarity and grief, weaving together personal stories of respiratory disease and environmental racism with collective acts of defiance.
