Geography with Brett Story (THE HOTTEST AUGUST)
The True/False Podcast
English - February 27, 2020 22:17 - 31 minutes - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTV & Film true/false documentary film kbia Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Climate change is an issue so broad and pervasive it is easy to abstract. It looms large over so many aspects of life it can feel less like a subject to explore, and more like a mood or a feeling, a doom permeating aspects of every story told in the 20th century. But instead of approaching it from a distance, or preparing a sanitized lecture, in her newest film The Hottest August, filmmaker and True/False alum Brett Story looks for the climate crisis’s many intersections, with labor, with capitalism, and the human psyche. Story is a geographer, and both Hottest August and her previous feature The Prison in Twelve Landscapes explore their subject matter through place, and people’s relationships with the places they inhabit.