Summer Screenings: Gowanus Current

Join us for a screening of the documentary film Gowanus Current followed by a talkback with the filmmakers Jamie Courville and Chris Reynolds.

A century and a half of industrial waste and raw sewage has turned Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal into one of the nation’s most toxic bodies of water. Squeezed between some of the borough’s most expensive brownstone neighborhoods, neglected public housing, row houses and small manufacturing have long dotted its sludgy banks. However, an ambitious EPA Superfund cleanup and a massive rezoning plan by the city hint that the real changes are just beginning.

Shot over the course of ten years, Gowanus Current explores the textures of this unique part of the city and the passions and hopes of stakeholders fighting for its future.

This program is part of CBH’s Summer Screenings, a series of documentary films about Brooklyn.