The Woods Hole Public Library will host a free screening of the award-winning documentary film Hollow Tree on Saturday, August 16, at 7 PM. Following the screening, a conversation and Q&A will be held with director Kira Akerman and Ana Keilson, co-director and co-founder of the Gull Island Institute. Released in 2022, Hollow Tree follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. For the first time, they notice the Mississippi River’s engineering, stumps of cypress trees, and billowing smokestacks. Their different perspectives — as Indigenous, white, and Angolan young women — shape their story of the climate crisis. Ken Burns describes the film as “an extraordinary film that asks all of us to think differently about the communities in which we live and the environments that we must respect.” The Gull Island Institute, an immersive liberal arts program located on Penikese and Cuttyhunk Islands, is a local example of education that is rooted in inquiries about where we live and how we deal with the effects of climate change. The documentary screening is free and open to the public, and will be held in the Library’s lower level Community Room.
To view the trailer, click here.