Shellshocked: Saving Oysters to Save Ourselves (2012)

Film Screening and Discussion: Emily Driscoll and George Buckley

In conjunction with the new exhibition, Mollusks, the museum screened Shellshocked, a new documentary by Emily Driscoll. The film follows efforts to prevent the extinction of wild oyster reefs, which keep oceans healthy by filtering water and engineering ecosystems. Due to overfishing and pollution, much of the world’s wild oyster reefs have been declared “functionally extinct.”