Interview with Curtis Miller, director of A Brief History of Chasing Storms

Jeremy interviews Curtis Miller, the director of A Brief History of Chasing Storms, which is screening as a part of the Chicago International Film Festival. "A Brief History of Chasing Storms presents a history of the tornado as both a destructive weather event and an American icon. Local monuments to past tornadoes intertwine with mythologies of settlement and displacement. An amateur storm chaser questions his own agency and fate. The CEO of a Wizard of Oz-themed storm shelter company describes a growing market in a world of increasing weather uncertainty. Unfolding episodically, questions of memory, inequality, colonization, climate change, and disaster capitalism arise as the film examines legacies of weather within the region colloquially known as “tornado alley.”You can catch A Brief History of Chasing Storms on Saturday, October 25 at 12pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center. Art by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Lily Bacon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Music by⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ newest_latest⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Suggestions, comments, complaints, hate mail, and all other correspondence can be sent to [email protected].