NZIFF - The History of Concrete
<div>HBO star John Wilson transfers his unique take on life to a debut documentary feature that will make you laugh and smile with his cast of extraordinary ordinary people - and nod along with his wry take on the complexities and absurdities of contemporary life. </div><div><br></div><div><div>Probably the only documentary to ever draw thematic connections between Hallmark Christmas movies, affordable housing in New York City, and tattoo preservation after death, The History Of Concrete plays like a welcome continuation of John Wilson’s delightfully peculiar HBO series How To With John Wilson. As with that Emmy-nominated show, Wilson here becomes interested in a seemingly rudimentary topic but then plunges down diverse rabbit holes, finding unlikely through-lines that eventually develop into something far more grand and strange.</div><div><br></div><div>Though ostensibly a comedy that spotlights the bizarreness of ordinary people, the documentary is never snide. Wilson finds himself hanging out on a low-budget film shoot, talking to an ageing singer whose neighbourhood is being affected by pollution, or filming a unique 3100-mile race that takes place on only one city block, and always approaches these different worlds with curiosity. As a result, the people Wilson meets open him up to new ways of thinking, and the longer he spends with them, the richer the conversations become. – Tim Grierson, Screen Daily</div></div>DocumentaryPT1H40M2026-08-28John Wilson
John Wilson
John Wilson
Clark Filio
Shirel Kozak
Allie Viti
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September 4, 4:00 pm
September 9, 6:00 pm
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