Event

The Hottest August

Sun Jan 12: 7.30pm
Wed Jan 15: 7.30pm
Thu Jan 16: 7.00pm

Brett Story
US
2019
1h 34m

About
A complex portrait of a city and its inhabitants, The Hottest August gives us a window into the collective consciousness of the present. The films point of departure is one city over one month: New York City, including its outer boroughs, during August 2017. Its 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 holds a mirror up to a society on the verge of catastrophe, registering the anxieties, distractions, and survival strategies that preoccupy ordinary lives.