Film
Letter to T: In Nuclearity, We Are Connected
2023 · 21m · Documentary
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Overview
With a contemplative letter to a friend as its point of departure, this video essay examines the complex, paradoxical visuality of the atom bomb in China. From 1960s military documentaries to contemporary CGI-enhanced fictions, a visual trope of the communal “People’s Bomb” was orchestrated in counterpoint to the evils of imperialism and the untamed wilderness of the Gobi Desert. Amid the ecological crises of the Anthropocene, Letter to T suggests that despite the disenchantment with and the re-politicisation of the image, we might find radical sources of connection and endurance in nuclearity.
Crew
- Zhang ZimuDirector
Details
- Release date
- October 26, 2023
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Chinese
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Documentary
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