Movie Details
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:John Dower
Cast & Crew
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John Dower
Executive Producer
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Michael Camerini
Director
J
James MacDonald
Director
Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
Audience Score
58 minDocumentary
Plot
Japanese husband and wife muralists Iri and Toshi Maruki are known for their depictions of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their collaborative relationship is unique: one paints a painfully detailed vision of the victims of the atomic blast; the other conceals the carefully delineated brush strokes with a grey-black ink “wash.” The first artist restates the specifics of the image; the second re-conceals. Through the repetition of this process, the work emerges.
