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‘How are you feeling about the future?’ Most of the answers to the rather ominous question posed in Brett Story’s film The Hottest August (2019) aren’t exactly positive. Competing in the New:Wave competition for emerging filmmakers at this year’s CPH:DOX – Copenhagen’s well regarded creative non-fiction film festival – it is one of several movies with a somewhat apocalyptic outlook. If non-fiction cinema is said to reflect the state of the world, then the present doesn’t look all that promising.
Full feature on Brett Story’s The Hottest August and Sarah Christman’s Swarm Season on Frieze