Welcome to the streaming event, The Pine Barrens Project, featuring The Pine Barrens, with a live Q&A on February 15th, 7pm-8pm with film director and curator of The Pine Barrens Project, David Scott Kessler.

The Pine Barrens Project is taking place at Drexel University's Academy of Natural Science and features work by Nancy Holt, Maya Lin, Emily Drummer, Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, Josh Weissbach, and David Scott Kessler displaying film installations around the museum's taxidermy dioramas from the 1930s-1950s.

The Pine Barrens film is an epic tone-poem, where raging forest fires and crackling campfires generate rebirth of the physical ecology and the identity of the land and its inhabitants. It is a celebration of nature and a portrait of a particular place, but one that casts doubt on its know-ability and our ability to discern reality from superstition.

The Pine Barrens explores the symbiotic yet sometimes destructive relationship between man and nature. Through moments with individuals spanning several years, it reveals the influence of place on identity during a period of gradual loss of both a way of life and the environment that gave birth to it.

Since 2012, short, evolving work-in-progress versions of The Pine Barrens have been screened with a live score by The Ruins of Friendship Orchestra, making the project unfixed and semi-improvised, emphasizing the experience of our changing relationship to place and the natural world over time.