Description
Russian premiere
Six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites.
About the director:
Casey Carter
Filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. He holds bachelor’s degrees in physics and photography from Tennessee State University and a master’s in architecture from the University of Michigan. His work engages nonfiction storytelling in film and video, photography, data visualization, and cartography. Carter’s practice centers on themes of governmentality, geography, environmentalism, and personal subjectivities. He has been a fellow of the Sundance Documentary Program, the International Documentary Association (IDA), among others. To Use a Mountain is his first feature film.