An Artist’s Journey into Florida’s Abandoned Springs Experiencing a landscape scarred and abandoned by government failure, an artist must come to grips with the impending loss of her subject matter: a collection of majestic freshwater springs exposed only for a short time before being smothered and forgotten beneath waters held back by an aging and […]
LOST SPRINGSAn Artist’s Journey into Florida’s Abandoned Springs With thanks and dedication to Marjorie Harris Carr and all the brave folks fighting for what is just plain right. Major funding provided by The Felburn Foundation. Additional funding provided by AQUIFERious, Florida Defenders of the Environment, St. Johns Riverkeeper, Silver Springs Alliance, Howard T. Odum Florida […]
We are excited to announce that Lost Springs is an official selection of the eighth annual Fort Myers Film Festival! The festival will be held March 21-25, 2018. More information can be found on their events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/108490883074446/ You can also see the film this upcoming Sunday in Gainesville at the Cinema Verde Environmental Film […]
Lost Springs is an official selection at the 2018 Cinema Verde Environmental Film & Arts Festival in Gainesville, Florida. The film will be screened at the Heartwood Soundstage on Sunday, February 11th. The screening will begin at 6:20 pm. Please visit Cinema Verde’s website to purchase tickets. Tickets are $7 (online) and $9 at the […]
The Matheson History Museum hosted Lost Springs for an audience screening and panel discussion on Friday, June 23, 2017. The screening was an opportunity to gather feedback which will be used to strengthen the story and structure of the film. More than 210 people viewed the screening. At the end of the evening, Matt Keene […]
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A screening of Lost Springs will be held on June 23, 2017 at 6pm at the Matheson History Museum in Gainesville, Florida. Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion with Margaret Tolbert, Captain Karen Chadwick, Lisa Rinaman and Matt Keene. The screening is free to attend. Short questionnaires about the film will be […]
Lost Springs is a documentary film that follows artist Margaret Ross Tolbert as she experiences a collection of freshwater Florida springs normally inaccessible due to a dam. The film explores themes of loss, wonder and experience in nature as it follows the course of a drawdown of the dam’s pool which happens every three or […]