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’”. 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 ... Atomic Park 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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