Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

Synopsis

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.

Director

Mark Cousins

Music

John Cummings

Studio

Hopscotch Films

Released

8 August 2015

Genres

Documentary