THE FUTURE IS GETTING HERE
VERY YEAR THAT PASSES UNDER the Trump presidency builds upon its prior injuries to democracy and dignity through the slow creep of normalization: people get used to it, whether they hate it, love it, don’t care, or are too busy or beleaguered to care. That’s why it’s been heartening and soul-stirring to see efforts among filmmakers to counter or confront this toxic tide with something greater, something more beautiful, something to make us both think and act. If one of the deepest pains of
