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Hiroshima bound / Icarus Films ; a film by Martin Lucas.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- Hiroshima-shi (Japan).
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment, 1945.
- Nagasaki-shi (Japan).
- World War, 1939-1945--Japan.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- False memory syndrome.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2016]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- Hiroshima Bound is a personal documentary that tracks the construction of America's collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It follows the obscure histories of specific photos and photographers, both Japanese and American, who visited Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the aftermath of the bombings, counterposing this visual legacy with the stories of survivors, whose practice of speaking to small groups of students offers a modest but powerful counter-history to the official record. The film uses its maker's own legacy as a child of the Atomic Age to look at the complexity of the representation of mass death, and the role of the archive in the digital era, taking viewers to the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, the International Center of Photography in New York, and to contemporary Hiroshima, in order to explore and 'unpack' the trauma and myth surrounding the culture of Hiroshima representation.
- Participant:
- Clara Yoshida, Claartje Van Dijk, Shigeko Sasamori, Katherine G. Lucas, Marilee Bailey, Robert Cronin, Anthony Weller.
- Credits:
- Writer, director, editor, Martin Lucas ; music, David Watson ; cinematographers, Khamisi Norwood, Leandro Villaro, Martin Lucas.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Martin Lucas, ©2015.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 9, 2016).
- Publisher Number:
- if-hb Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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