
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
DON'T BE AFRAID!
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.
- Year: 2015
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: Hopscotch Films, Crossover Labs, BBC Scotland
- Keyword: atomic bomb, nuclear power, science, repurposed footage
- Director: Mark Cousins
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