This important film about Hurricane Katrina is now playing in New York and LA. From the Times review:
Ms. Roberts didn’t wait out the storm from her home in the Lower Ninth Ward; she chased it. Roaming her neighborhood on foot and bicycle, she videotaped the gathering dark clouds and her stranded neighbors with a newly bought camera, watching with mounting concern as the drizzle grew into a deluge. Her rough, untutored camerawork has an ugliness and urgency that only add to the escalating sense of chaos and unease. As her sightlines roughly shift from one fugitive image to the next — wary adults, giggly children, nervous dogs, a stop sign that will soon be almost entirely under water — you can feel the pressure of the moment. Excitement courses through her free-ranging chatter and the palsied, swerving visuals.
As someone in the film says, “Katrina is still goin’ on”. Indeed it is. Let’s hope this film receives a wide release, which may help this conversation gather the urgency it desperately deserves. See it if you can and better yet, get involved.
