Synopsis
Sixty years after the event that took place on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, we encounter the last survivors of the first atomic bomb ever launched against mankind.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : By Us Publishing
- Co-production : Phoenix Studio
Full credits (11)
- Executive Producer : Virginie Luc
- Screenwriters : Strad, Virginie Luc
- Director of Photography : Gérard Rancinan
- Music Composer : Laurent Garnier
- Editor : Strad
- Author of original work : Strad
- Voice-over : Virginie Luc
- Co-producer : Pascal Stradella
- Sound Editor : Strad
- Special Effects : Strad
- Sound Mixer : Strad
Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Auteur documentary, Research - Experimental
- Themes : Photography, History
- Production language : French, English
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2005
- Runtime : 6 min 45 seconds
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Sepia
- Aspect ratio : 16/9
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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About
Adapted from “Hiroshima, mémoire du future”, the photo-reportage by Gérard Rancinan and the journalistic enquiry by Virginie Luc and Caroline Gaudriault, the director takes a trip back in time, from the present to the past, back until the very moment when the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It’s a trip that takes us into the faces, the gazes and the bodies that possess traces of the disaster. This journalistic and artistic work is less a commemoration than a look ahead into the future, driven by a desire to keep consciousness alert. Hiroshima marks a point of breakdown. For the first time, man’s genius made the idea of collective suicide possible. He’d at last conceived a “masterpiece” capable of destroying all of mankind. And there was light…
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