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Cast and Credits

R.: Bruce Conner. 16mm D.: 36’

Edition History

Film notes

Conner bases his film on government footage of the first underwater A-bomb test, July 25, 1946, at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. Recorded at speeds ranging from normal to super slow motion, the same explosion is seen 27 different times. As the repetition builds, however, the explosion is gradually removed from the realm of historic phenomena, assuming the dimensions of a universal, cosmic force. (Thomas Albright, “San Francisco Chronicle”)

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Edition2004
SectionCinema2: directorS’ cutS
Edition1999
SectionSpecial event: Forty years of Free Cinema-La Mostra Internazionale del Cinema Libero