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Paddle-In Movie: Gowanus Current
Join The Gowanus Dredgers for an on-water screening of Gowanus Current, a documentary by Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds, and a discussion with the filmmakers at the Boathouse after the show!
Book your ticket via eventbrite. We’ll meet at the Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse (165 2nd St.), but the screening takes place on the Gowanus Canal, with on-water seating in the Gowanus Dredger fleet of canoes.
Gowanus Current: 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? Shot 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. As neighbors negotiate this top-down transformation, they reveal intentions far more nuanced and entangled than a NIMBY/YIMBY dichotomy. A portrait of activism and its limits, this is urgent civic cinema exploring the human side of the conflict engendered by a housing crisis, income inequality and a changing climate.
