The City Dark

This thoughtful and playful film by Ian Cheney adds to the admiration I have for him (and Curt Ellis) based on King Corn. It treats the direct observation of a cloudless and not too polluted night sky as a core experience of the natural world. It contemplates the ways in which most people alive today are impeded in any attempt they may happen to make at obtaining such an experience. The film includes images of night skies from Maine to Brooklyn and beyond and also has funny and impassioned interviews with Neal Tyson and other students and lovers of the stars. It's lovely work.