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To Use a Mountain

2025 · 99 min

A quiet, sobering documentary that asks you to sit with uneasy landscapes and the people who refuse to abandon them.

Directed by: Casey Carter
Genres: Documentary

Overview: Six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste. Against the impassive logic of government analysis and archives, a people’s history of resistance and stewardship emerges through a visceral journey across the landscapes, ecologies, and personal histories of the candidate sites.

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Directed by: Casey Carter
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: environment
power
survival
isolation
justice
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Realism	9
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Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Casey Carter
Music: Kara-Lis Coverdale
Cinematography: Casey Carter
Runtime: 99 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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