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THE HISTORY OF CONCRETE
Synopsis
Struggling to fund his next project, filmmaker John Wilson attends a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie. Searching his home city of New York for inspiration, he decides to use the formula to sell a documentary about Earth’s second most-used substance: concrete.
Synopsis
Struggling to fund his next project, filmmaker John Wilson attends a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie. Searching his home city of New York for inspiration, he decides to use the formula to sell a documentary about Earth’s second most-used substance: concrete.
Our take
Going astray in the vast sprawl of his foundational subject, John Wilson brings his shaggy-dog sensibility to bear on a ubiquitous but overlooked material. Affable, curious, and always surprising, The History of Concrete builds an epic history of urbanism from droll vignettes of oddball America.