Movie Description

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

(2015)

Overview

Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.

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Facts

Original TitleAtomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Status Released

Release Information

  • 2015-08-08

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 01h 11m

Production CompaniesHopscotch Films,Crossover Labs,BBC Scotland

Genres

  • Documentary