Film poster for 'To Use a Mountain' by Casey Carter, featuring a collage of maps and images from the film including a mountain and desert terrain, a drone, images of people, award logos and a small map of Nevada with Yucca Mountain.

"A patient, rigorous road trip across a continent and its buried subterranean secrets. An epic journey in memorializing topography of stolen lands… A filmmaker who is not afraid to do the hard detective work and gather evidence, with rare formal economy." - Visions du Réel Awards


"Brilliantly conveyed… maintains a crescendo of urgency" - International Cinephile Society


"Unflinching and prosecutorial" - Film Fest Report

“A gripping radioactive travelogue.” Labocine, Science New Wave


“Between government power and environmental justice… [the] intricate structure pulls us into a struggle that continues" - ParaDoxa Forum


"A point on a map with the force of a gunshot" - Letterboxd

SCREENINGS

Visions du Reel 2025 | Nyon, Switzerland
*winner, special jury award, international feature film competition


IDFA Best of Fest 2025 | Amsterdam, Netherlands


DOXA 2025, ParaDOXA Forum | Vancouver, BC, Canada
*honorable mention, international feature film competition


Champs-Élysées 2025 | Paris, France


New/Next 2025 | Baltimore, MD


Science New Wave | New York, NY


Dallas IFF 2025 | Dallas, TX


Tacoma Film Festival | Tacoma, WA


International Uranium Film Festival 2025 | Navajo Nation Museum, Window Rock, NM | Las Vegas, NV


Beyond Borders – Kastellorizo International Documentary Festival 2025 | Kastellorizo, Greece


Film Recherche et Développement Durable (FReDD) Film Festival 2025 | Toulouse, France

A still from To Use A Mountain showing a close-up of a glowing sample of uraninite (uranium ore) under ultraviolet light illuminating its bright blue-green features in a dark setting.

film still: a close up of a glowing sample of uraninite (uranium ore)

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