Scaling Up & Down: Screening for Eco-Social Realism

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A screening featuring work by Laurie Palmer, David Scott Kessler, Lize Mogel, and Brian Holmes & Jeremy Bolen, with a talkback moderated by Dylan Gauthier.

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Featuring work by Laurie Palmer, David Scott Kessler, Lize Mogel, and Brian Holmes & Jeremy Bolen with talkback moderated by Dylan Gauthier. Scaling Up & Down An Eco-Social Realism Screening At Ulises 1525 N American St Studio 104, Philadelphia, PA 19122 Saturday, November 14, 2026 5-7:30 p.m. Featuring Laurie Palmer, David Scott Kessler, Lize Mogel, and Brian Holmes & Jeremy Bolen Scaling Up & Down moves between works exploring the pasts and futures of large-scale regional watersheds and low-growing primitive organisms like moss and lichen. Following the screening there will be a discussion with the artists moderated by Dylan Gauthier (Visiting Assistant Professor, Bi-Co Department of Environmental Studies). This program is part of Eco-Social Realism curated by Daniel Tucker and is supported by Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College’s The John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities. About the Work Jeremy Bolen & Brian Holmes If This River Could Move, 2023 (TRT: 17:38) The film traces the relationship between modernist engineering, colonial histories, and ecological transformation along the Mississippi River. Beginning at Old River Control in central Louisiana, it examines the infrastructure designed to regulate the river’s course alongside the enduring colonial structures embodied by Angola Prison. These histories converge within the contemporary crisis of coastal land loss and environmental degradation. The film draws on a conversation with Dr.

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