An Endless Inspirational Muse for Artists and Scientists
Presented by College of Staten Island Faculty:
Dr. Robert Marraccino, Dr. Richard Veit and Kevin Schreck
Don’t miss opportunity to see the Melting Age Exhibit!
“Antarctic Voyage” is a new documentary from award-winning filmmaker Kevin Schreck about a biological research expedition to the remote island of South Georgia, starring charismatic field biologist, Dr. Samantha Monier. Part modern-day adventure film, part visual tone poem, “Antarctic Voyage” sheds a light on the current state of the polar region’s majestic wildlife, and the intrepid explorers who are dedicated to preserving and understanding what remains of our fragile, vital natural world, all through a refreshingly unconventional manner from the standard nature documentary genre.
Originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kevin Schreck is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and film educator currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He was the recipient of both the Jerome Hill Award for Exceptional Work in the Documentary Tradition and the recipient of the Award for Contribution to the Film and Electronic Arts Department of Bard College in 2011.
At the age of 23, Kevin’s first major feature-length documentary, “Persistence of Vision” (2012), made its world premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival, and has since screened at over 100 international film festivals and institutions to virtually universal acclaim. His subsequent films include “Tangent Realms: The Worlds of C.M. Kösemen” (2018) and “The Duck of New York” (2023). Kevin’s next film is “Enongo” (2025), a feature-length, documentary-animation hybrid about a young woman rapper, producer and Ph.D. candidate, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, better known by her stage persona, “Sammus.”
As an educator, Kevin has led filmmaking masterclasses and guest lectures at major universities and colleges in Australia, Denmark, and across the United States. Since early 2018, he has been a teaching artist and mentor at Reel Works, a non-profit, after school program which provides free film education to New York students from underrepresented communities and low-income backgrounds. Kevin was also the Visiting Documentary