*The location on the map marks the site of 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The project led by the marine scientists of Temple University concerns the oil spill's impact on the coral communities. (https://now.temple.edu/news/2017-06-06/deeper-dive) With otherworldly poetry and the aid of scientists (from nuclear physicists to marine biologists), we dream through mythologies into worlds beyond human scale yet still affected by our presence. The new film Aphotic Zone dives 4 km deep into the Gulf of Mexico where marine scientists from Philiadelphia’s Temple University are endeavoring to find a super coral species that can thrive under the warming and acidification of the oceans caused by humans. With audio-mixing by Oscar-winning engineers Jaime Baksht and Michelle Couttolenc, the sound was recorded in August 2021 at the Aztec ruins at the heart of Mexico City on the 500th anniversary of the Fall of Tenochtitlan. The horrors of colonialism and the global ecological destruction caused by industrial pollution weave together into a subtle meditation on surviving the ravages of human greed. (from www.emilijaskarnulyte.com)

Louisiana, United States

Gulf of Mexico

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