Join us for free film screenings presented in conjunction with the exhibition Portable Memories in Rising Seas by Fifty-Fifty, now on view at the Main Library.

La Maison en Petits Cubes, 2008

Japanese animated short subject film created by Kunio Katô, with music by Kenji Kondo and produced by Robot Communications.

As his town is flooded by water, an aged widower is forced to add additional levels onto his home in order to stay dry. But when he accidentally drops his favorite smoking pipe into the lower submerged levels of his home, his search for the pipe eventually makes him relive scenes from his eventful life, including his time before the flooding began.

ThuleTuvalu, 2014

Documentary directed by Matthias von Gunten.

Thule lies in the extreme north of Greenland, while Tuvalu is a small island state in the Pacific Ocean. Although in completely distant corners of the world, the people of these two places are intimately related. As the ice melts in Thule, Tuvalu drowns in the ocean as sea levels continue to rise.