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Black MayonnaiseA documentary film Black Mayonnaise is a dark voyage into one of the most contaminated bodies of water in the United States. In New York City, a Superfund cleanup is now underway, unearthing the toxic sediment at the bottom of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Polluted by more than a century of industrial waste and raw sewage, the canal is being dredged by the Environmental Protection Agency, unearthing its buried layers of ‘black mayonnaise.’ Black Mayonnaise was made possible with the collaboration of the Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club and Gowanus advocate Katia Kelly, and was supported by a grant from the Awesome Foundation. It had its film festival premiere at the 2022 Rooftop Film Festival, and its international premiere at the National Cinema Museum of Italy, as part of the 2023 CinemAmbiente film festival. From 2024 to 2025, it was exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, as part of The Brooklyn Artists Exhibition. |
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