Festive Film Screening Celebrates Public Art & Plastic Activism

Robin Frohardt’s Plastic Bag Store was an astonishing grocery market installed in a storefront in Times Square, NY — astonishing because everything in it was meticulously made of plastic bags, to call attention to the pervasiveness of single-use packaging.  Visitors stepped through the doors to the frozen food cooler to discover an intimate theater with a whimsical puppet show that revealed another aspect of throw-away plastic: it lasts forever.

Now the puppet show has been captured in a lyrical film, following a plastic bottle into a dystopian future “after the robot wars,” where it is carefully uncovered and exhibited as a trace of a vanished civilization. With Arlington considering a ban on bottled water, and Michelle Lougee’s community art project Persistence scheduled to come down in June, Arlington’s EcoWeek offers the perfect opportunity to bring Frohardt’s film to Arlington.

The screening will be followed by a virtual Q&A with Robin Frohardt and Michelle Lougee on art, activism, and plastic.  Tickets will be available soon at www.ArtsArtlington.org/plastic. You can email here for more information.

Film by Robin Frohardt, with original score by Freddi Price. Executive Produced by Pomegranate Arts.