In the Course of Human Events (1997)

Directed by

Dominic Angerame

Country

United States

Runtime

22 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film uses footage of demolition in San Francisco after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to argue that urban development is inherently destructive. It presents the earthquake’s damage as just one more example of that destruction, set against the city’s famous landscape.

contemplativeobservationalbleakunsettlingslow-pacedreflectivevisually starkcynical

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