River of Grass

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM

Vidiots, Los Angeles

**Producers**: Danielle Varga, Sasha Wortzel Artist and Filmmaker **Sasha Wortzel** joins us in the microcinema for a screening of her dreamy and poetic documentary *River of Grass*. *River of Grass* is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, “*The Everglades: River of Grass*,” (1947), which transformed the public’s understanding of the area from worthless swamps to an essential source of freshwater, enabling the ecosystem to endure, just barely, today. Interweaving Douglas’s writing, present-day verité, and archival glimpses, *River of Grass* reveals how this country’s origin story haunts and inextricably shapes contemporary American life, while asking how we might weather coming storms better together. “*Wortzel’s film is a clarion call to protect Florida’s greatest resource.*” – RogerEbert.com “*A variety of perspectives add up to something as exquisitely crystalline, allowing you to get lost in its beauty without losing sight of how easily broken it can be*.” -The Moveable Feast “*A rare environmental film to succeed both in expressing collective grief about climate change and inspiring activism to adapt and resist further depredations.*“- Filmmaker Magazine Sasha Wortzel is a celebrated artist, with work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places.