Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Name: Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 1 hr 11 min
Rating: 66

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Audience Score

DirectorMark Cousins

NR 1 hr 11 minDocumentary

Plot

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.

Movie Details

Original Language:English

Executive Producers:Ross McKenzie, Ewan Angus, Nick Fraser

Production Companies:Hopscotch Films, Crossover Labs, BBC Scotland

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