At the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains the everyday trades volleys with the cosmos. certainties is a lousy custodian’s record of life on a warming planet.
In certainties, footage from three years spent on the border of the Angeles National Forest turns into an extended apology to the natural world. The film sits uneasily between feelings of culpability and insignificance, testing and abandoning theories of cause and effect, and reflecting on the uniquely destructive radiance of the human presence.
World Premiere upcoming at NYFF - Currents