American Dendrite

On Saturday, March 7th, 2026, Millennium Film Workshop invites you to our screening of Adam Marshall Present’s 2025 documentary experiment, American Dendrite.

A road trip documentary, American Dendrite explores climate, culture, and consciousness across the U.S. Shot on vintage Super 8mm film, the journey follows the Mississippi River from Chicago to the Louisiana Bayou, capturing intimate stories from people along the way. Each participant responds to reflections shared by someone upstream, creating a flowing chain of conversation. The result is a living time capsule revealing how water, geography, and memory bind diverse communities in a pivotal moment of American history.

Adam Marshall Present will be in attendance for a discussion after the film to further the stream of conversation post-screening, inviting the audience to reflect on the reflections of the film’s subjects, and the impact the events of the time since may have had on our collective thoughts, anxieties, hopes and…