The History of Concrete directed by John Wilson. Magnolia Pictures, 100 minutes. 2026.

In 1996 , the prolific underground filmmaker George Kuchar brought ten years of camcorder footage to the prestigious Robert Flaherty Seminar, a conference named for the documentarian behind stately nonfiction classics like Nanook of the North and Moana . Kuchar showed selections from his body of work, including Weather Diary 1, which was shot in El Reno, Oklahoma, a seemingly fitting addition to the seminar’s programming on “Landscape and Place.” But over the course of its eighty-two-minute run time, it became clear that Kuchar’s material wasn’t serious enough for the Flaherty audience. Rather than chasing tornadoes, the reason Kuchar traveled to Oklahoma in the first place, the director spends most of the film watching TV, reading sci-fi novels, and eating junk food in his motel room. It turned out he couldn’t even drive.…