Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Mark Your Calendars, Get Your Tickets

On Saturday, March 4, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m., The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with Basilica Hudson, Partners for Climate Action, and Upstate Films, presents a special screening of the 2021 documentary film Meltdown. The screening will be followed by a special question-and-answer session with trailblazing Hudson-based photographer Lynn Davis and climate scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.


Meltdown is a timely documentary that merges art and science as it follows photographer Lynn Davis and climate scientist Anthony Leiserowitz to the town of Ilulissat, Greenland, considered the "Ground Zero" of climate change. Coinciding with this special screening, two of Davis's large-scale photographs from her travels to Greenland are on view at the Olana State Historic Site as part of Olana's first winter exhibition, Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing LandscapeChasing Icebergs, which runs through March 26, traces the 19th-century artist Frederic Church's quest to paint icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. Much like Church, Davis's art is connected to global exploration, and she draws inspiration from remote locations, including the sublime beauty of the arctic landscape. 

"I came searching for beauty, feeling loss, and now I've come to see the loss of the planet," says Davis. "There's all the statistics, the dangers, then there's the awesome beauty."

"How do you experience beauty at the same time that you have a sense of tragedy?" Leiserowitz asks. "It's about life itself, isn't it?"

"I'm so pleased we are presenting this timely film in Hudson," said Carolyn Keogh, The Olana Partnership's Director of Education and Public Programs. "Having Lynn's work on view at Olana presents a wonderful occasion to revisit this important documentary's discussion of our current climate crisis through the intersections of art and science."

Click here to watch the film trailer.

Click here to purchase tickets for the screening on March 4.

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