Mimesis Documentary Festival: Opening Night: To Use a Mountain
August 11 @ 7:00 pm
Six rural 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.
This screening will be followed by a conversation with Casey Carter in-person.
Doors open at 6 PM with a catered reception (included with the cost of admission).
To Use a Mountain
Physics, geology, and democracy collide across the expansive American interior, in a series of vignettes from six candidate sites for a sacrificial nuclear dumping ground.