Incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch videos of sunset-soaked beaches, wildflowers and forests on loop, prompting them to reflect on isolation and wilderness. Equal parts meditation and provocation, Blue Room identifies the damage done by withholding access to the outdoors and how we are all prisoners when the essential human need for communion with nature is denied.

Director’s Bio: Merete Mueller is a writer and documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores our relationships with built and natural environments, and has included in-depth reporting on climate change and infrastructure, as well as intimate stories about body image, homes, and belonging. Merete's short and feature-length films have screened at SXSW, Hot Docs, DOC NYC, The Brooklyn Museum, and via Netflix, The New York Times' Op-Docs series, and The New Yorker.