LOVE SONG FOR A WAILING EARTH

Screening Information

Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Start Time: 4:30 PM
Runtime: 9 minutes 38 seconds
Location: MIX Center — Theater 1
50 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201

Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Start Time: 11:03 AM
Location: Beth Hebrew
333 E. Portland St., Phoenix, AZ 85004

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Film Description

Love Song for a Wailing Earth is a short dance film set against the haunting landscape of Appalachia. It follows one woman returning home after Hurricane Helene to confront what was lost—and what remains. Through a raw and intimate performance, Conway Weary channels the collective grief of climate trauma.

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Blending movement and emotion, the film offers a poetic meditation on displacement, resilience, and ecological loss, inviting audiences to witness both personal and shared experiences of recovery.

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Director:

Scott Lawrence Kirschenbaum is a filmmaker and director of the docuseries Wailing Earth, which premiered at Madison Square Garden and explores the personal and collective journey through grief following Hurricane Helene.

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His previous work includes The Last Ecstatic Days, praised by the Boston Globe as a “courageous end-of-life chronicle,” as well as You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t, featured on PBS’s Independent Lens. His films have been widely distributed and used as educational tools across universities, nonprofits, and public programs worldwide.

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Kirschenbaum’s work centers on deeply human stories, exploring themes of trauma, resilience, and healing through documentary and narrative filmmaking. He is also an adjunct professor at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina.