Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise

DON'T BE AFRAID!

• Documentary

• 71 Mins
• 2015
• en

• star6.6/ 10

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.