The History of Concrete

Cert TBC

Following the finale of his acclaimed HBO series, How To with John Wilson, documentarian John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world's most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter.

After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to tell this seemingly drab story and increase his movie’s appeal. He meets a man who specialises in removing chewing gum from pavements and some dedicated joggers who run in circles around a single block of flats in Queens. But Wilson also gets led astray, and before he knows it, he’s having dinner with Kim Kardashian.

His foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry.