DEMON MINERAL – free documentary screening!

Join Rural Utah Project, Grand County Public Library, and the Moab to Monument Film Commission for a free screening of Hadley Austin’s new feature documentary “DEMON MINERAL”. Demon Mineral is an account of life in the wake of uranium mining on sacred lands. Shot over the course of four years with Diné (or Navajo) community oversight and guidance, the film examines the legacy of uranium extraction from the perspectives of both the landscape and its inhabitants. Framed entirely by indigenous voices and testimonies, Demon Mineral is about an active, multigenerational process of reclamation. The Diné have a concept in their unwritten rules for the living world: there is a demon who lives in the earth. He is happy there and will bother no-one unless disturbed. Uranium, for millions of years to come, is perhaps this demon made real.