TO USE A MOUNTAIN will open theatrically at DCTV in New York on Friday, August 21 with a regional theatrical expansion to follow. VOD release (via Grasshopper Film) will occur in 2027. It is also screening with frontline communities across the country currently confronting issues of nuclear waste, nuclear weapons production, and next generation nuclear projects initiated in response to the energy demands of the AI data center boom. You can get tickets at dctvny.org and follow the film on socials at @touseamountain for more information. "Faced with a mandate to isolate the waste for 10,000 years, the Department of Energy mapped, analyzed, and assembled its assessments, while the unsuspecting stewards of sacrificial territory found themselves fighting for their homes, health, history and dignity. In the end, one site was chosen: a desert ridge in Nevada called Yucca Mountain, on the unceded lands of the Western Shoshone. After decades of controversy, construction at Yucca Mountain was halted, and to this day, no permanent solution has been devised for America’s 90,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, TO USE A MOUNTAIN assembles a people’s history of resistance and stewardship through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites. Farmers, miners, citizen scientists, Native American leaders, and activists—each with a story bound to this enduring threat—stand in stark contrast to the cold, silent machinery of bureaucracy, in a meditation on resistance, memory, and the timeless struggle between power and place." Casey Carter is the filmmaker behind "To Use a Mountain" the film brilliantly displays his ability to blend his background in the sciences and the arts giving us a beautiful window to an incredibly ugly subject. Official Selection: Visions du Réel (Switzerland) | Special Jury Award, Int’l Competition | World Premiere Dallas IFF (Dallas, Texas) | Documentary Feature Competition DOXA (Vancouver) | Best Feature Honorable Mention, ParaDOXA Forum IDFA (Amsterdam) | Best of Fest Big Sky (Missoula, Montana) | Official Selection And many more… TRAILER HERE: https://youtu.be/EwSe0c-Ldig?si=lorYwbQpyzvLkbVH IMDb HERE: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11396360/?ref_=fn_t_1 If you like what we do (and if you don't!) you could always buy us a kofi! https://ko-fi.com/autimagination WE LOVE OUR SPONSORS!! Thurocleanfl.com AND OUR NEW BABY an LGBQT and ND owned and operated small business using vegan and organic products to bring you phenomenal smells! Hexennacht.com Check out Autimagination's affilliates and get 10% off or more using our PROMO CODES NerdyNuts.com PROMO CODE Pup2024 Multitasky.com PROMO CODE PupDuffy JustStrong.com PROMO CODE PupStrong10 Eat Your Vitamins! GEM-A-GEM-A-AUTI https://dailygem.co/ 30% off at Cocoburry.com CO29184328 Thank you for being a part of the Autimagination family! Check Us Out at Autimagination.org REGISTER TO VOTE OR CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION AT VOTE.ORG OR WHENWEALLVOTE.ORG Be sure to support your local libraries! Outro music courtesy of musician Raleigh Keegan, the song is "Tell Me Something I don't Know" from his album "Clocks Roll Forward". You can check out our favorite band geek here: https://www.youtube.com/@RaleighKeeganMusic
