Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (2015)

Name: Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2015-08-08

1h 11m

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August 8, 2015
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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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Release Date
August 8, 2015

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 11m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2024-02-04

This Movie Is About.

science

atomic bomb

nuclear power

repurposed footage

Wiki.

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.