Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Post-screening conversation with UCLA English Professor **Elizabeth DeLoughrey**, UCLA Design Media Arts Professor **Rebeca Méndez**, and the film’s co-director, investigative journalist **Rosanna Xia**. Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Media Arts From the *Los Angeles Times* and Pulitzer Prize-finalist **Rosanna Xia**, *Out of Plain Sight* is a cinematic exposé of an environmental disaster lurking just off the coast of Southern California. Not far from Catalina Island, aboard one of the most-advanced research ships in the world, David Valentine discovered a corroded barrel on the seafloor that gave him chills. The full environmental horror sharpens into greater clarity once he calls Xia, who pieces together a shocking revelation: In the years after World War II, as many as half a million barrels of toxic waste had been quietly dumped into the ocean—and the consequences continue to haunt the world today. 2024, Dir. Daniel Straub, Rosanna Xia, DCP, color, 94 min.