Hottest August
Steeped in...delight, the kind that reminds us that there's beauty in the world, and a future that's worth fighting for.
The Hottest August
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The film’s point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. It’s a month heavy with the tension of a new President, growing anxiety over everything from rising rents to marching white nationalists, and unrelenting news of either wildfires or hurricanes on every coast. The film pivots on the question of futurity: what does the future look like from where we are standing? And what if we are not all standing in the same place? The Hottest August offers a mirror onto a society on the verge of catastrophe, registering the anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.
Genre
Documentary,
Environment,
New York City,
Women and Film
Runtime
95
Language
English
Director
Brett Story
Producer
Brett Story
FEATURED REVIEW
Stephen Saito, Moveable Fest
Among the many New Yorkers the filmmaker Brett Story encounters throughout her travels in the city during the summer of 2017, it’s an artist who calls himself an Afronaut who has one of the most prescient observations of where he stands, explaining that he puts on a self-styled spacesuit because by ...
Played at
Town Center 5 11.15.19 - 11.21.19
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