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Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 8, 2015

Runtime

1h 11m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

66%

Original Title

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Production Companies

Hopscotch Films, Crossover Labs, BBC Scotland

Director

Mark Cousins

Description

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.