Screenings 4: Terminal Velocity
Friday, October 16 2009 / 21:00
Filmtheater 't Hoogt, Hall 2
“With
the fantastic illustration of the dromosphere of the speed of light
in a vacuum, we are at least to question the witnesses, those of
Chernobyl, for instance, for in 1986 the time of the accident
suddenly became for them, and finally for all of us, the ‘accident
in time’”.
- Paul Virilio
Chernobyl
has irremediably infected our perception of time. A few seconds: that
is all it took to lose control of the reactor. There was no more time
available for those unlucky enough to be exposed to a fatal dose of
radioactivity. This selection reflects on the rise of the nuclear
threat after 1945 and the application of the technological principles
of mass production to mass destruction.
Let Me Count The Ways: Minus 10, 9, 8, 7
Leslie Thornton (USA, 2004, video, 22:00 min) (works)
Let Me Count the Ways is a series of meditations on
violence and fear, and their reverberations on cultural history. The episodes
have been built out of ...
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (France, 2003, 35mm, 8:00 min) (works)
Shot
on location at White Sands, New Mexico, very near Trinity Site – the location
of the first atomic explosion in July 1945 – Atomic Park captures
sunbathers ...
On the Third Planet from the Sun
Pavel Medvedev (Russia, 2006, 35mm, 32:00 min) (works)
A portrait of life in the Arkhangelsk area near the
Arctic Circle in Northern Russia, where the Soviet army carried out tests of
the hydrogen bomb in ...
Crossroads
Bruce Conner (USA, 1976, 35mm, 36:00 min) (works)
“From
material recently declassified by the Defense Department, Conner has
constructed a 36-minute work, editing together 27 different takes of the early
atomic explosions at Bikini, all un-altered ...
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