Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

"DON'T BE AFRAID!"
  • 2015
  • 1 hr 10 min
  •  6.6  (10)
  •   Released

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.

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
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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.
  • Release Date
    2015
  • Runtime
    1 hr 10 min
  • Language
    en
  • Rating
    6.6  (10)