Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

(2015)
NR
6.6/10
10 votes
1h 11m
August 8, 2015
"DON'T BE AFRAID!"

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.