Plays in Shorts Program: Exodus
Saturday, June 13
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Regal Gallery Place

701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

for all screenings

Ghost Lands

Director

Zachary Garmoe

Follow herons, finches, and snow geese through hazy marshes and moonlit forests to trace the footsteps of Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman and explore what it means to physically dwell with the ghosts of our nation’s past.

Traveling along the Harriet Tubman Historical Byway, GHOST LANDS reflects on the natural and unnatural landscapes Tubman would have encountered on the Delmarva Peninsula. From the farm where she was raised to the marshes where she trapped muskrats, GHOST LANDS considers how the natural world shaped Tubman—and what these spaces might still teach us today.

Tubman often compared herself to a bird, reflecting on the beauty and mobility of freedom and flight. GHOST LANDS is not a recreation of her lived experience, but rather a meditation on what we can understand about our shared past by returning to these spaces.

Director, Ghost Lands

Zachary Garmoe is a documentary filmmaker and photographer with a professional background in coastal and marine sciences. He is currently completing his MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking in Bozeman, Montana, and is a Graduate Fellow with the Montana Space Grant Consortium.

During his time in Bozeman, he has interned with both the Ocean Exploration Trust aboard the EV Nautilus and the Museum of the Rockies.

Prior to graduate school, he worked as an estuarine scientist for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, managing a continuous water quality program and monitoring forage fish populations. He also worked for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, managing a remote educational center and witnessing the rapidly eroding tidal landscape. Zachary graduated with a degree in Environmental Studies from University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2017.

His films focus on both overlooked and charismatic ecosystems, found in backyards, national parks, interstate medians, and everywhere in between.