Mac Premo

This video follows Michele Klimczak, one of the 250 year-round residents of Fishers Island on the easternmost tip of New York State. The beaches of the tiny island are regularly inundated with plastic trash, much of which comes from New York City. Klimczak cleans the beaches--her full time job and passion--removing as much as 25,000 pounds of plastic each year.

An animated conversation with Jad Abumrad about sound, music, and the function of music.

Graduate film by Mac Premo.

Joe Strummer of The Clash said it best: “All we’re doing is trying to communicate something. Sometimes we don't know what it is, sometimes we do."