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| Global Peace Film Festival presents "Atomic Mom" |
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| Start Date: | 9/21/2011 | Start Time: | 6:00 PM |
| End Date: | 9/21/2011 | |
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Event Description
USA, Japan, 2010, 80mins.
Director: M.T. Silvia
Atomic Mom weaves an intimate portrait of a complex mother-daughter relationship within an obscure – but important – moment in American history. As the only female scientist present during atomic detonations in the Nevada desert, Pauline Silvia, the filmmaker’s mother, undergoes a crisis of conscience. After a long silence and prompted by her daughter, she finally reveals grim secrets of working in the U.S. atomic testing program.
In a world of Wikileaks, Pauline is a whistle-blower who had been cowed by the silencing machine of the US military for decades. In an attempt to reconcile with her own mother’s past, her daughter, filmmaker M.T. Silvia, meets Emiko Okada, a Hiroshima survivor trying to reconcile her own history in Japan. The film follows these survivors, each on a different end of atomic warfare, as they “meet” through the filmmaking process, and as they, with startling honestly, attempt to understand the other.
Atomic Mom invites viewers to confront American nuclear history in a completely new way and will inspire dialog about human rights, personal responsibility, and the possibility – and hope – of peace.
To learn more about the Global Peace Film Festival, visit peacefilmfest.org. |
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Campus Department
Global Peace Film Festival |
Event is open to the public
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