Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)
1h 11m
Running Time
August 8, 2015Release Date
Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)
1h 11m
Running Time
August 8, 2015Release Date
Network & Production Companies
Plot.
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.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Nick Fraser
Executive Producer
Mark Cousins
Director
Stuart Braithwaite
Original Music Composer
John Archer
Producer
John Archer
Producer
Dominic Aitchison
Original Music Composer
Mark Atkin
Producer
Martin Bulloch
Original Music Composer
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Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise is a documentary film about nuclear history directed by Mark Cousins and Produced by Heather Croall, Mark Atkin and John Archer. It uses only archive footage to explore life and death in the atomic age. The band Mogwai created the original soundtrack. The film, with a live performance by Mogwai, closed the Edinburgh International Festival in 2016. It was then shown on BBC Storyville to mark 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima.
The soundtrack was subsequently reworked by Mogwai into a studio album, Atomic.