Frames of Reference
Volume 3 Program 2
Fragmented Memory Part 2
Collective versus individual memory and historic specificity
versus romanticized recollections are the focuses of this program,
which features works in which the power of the cinematic image indelibly
captures both the epic and the intimate dramas of life.
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Atomic
Ed and the Black Hole
Ellen
Spiro
39:00 2002 |
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takes us to Los Alamos to meet Ed, a former atomic bomb scientist
who has since renounced weapons work and now collects the government's
obsolete technologies and declassified discards to fashion a
history of the nuclear age |
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