Radio Bikini (1988)

Isao Hashimoto, Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945

Thanks to Ian Thompson for this one.

Sophie Ristelhueber

Sophie Ristelhueber from Laure Vermeersch on Vimeo.

Hartmut Bitomsky

Jesus College Air Raid Shelter

The Easter 2010 issue of the Cambridge Alumni Magazine CAM has an article

on a WWII air raid shelter beneath Jesus College gardens. Full issue PDF.

The short piece by Diya Gupta is on pp. 18-19. Photos by Steve Bond.

A Boy And His Dog (1975)

Post-apocalyptic Don Johnson. Is there any other kind? The whole film is on Youtube. Here is the first 10 minutes.

 

Bunker Busters

This last one is truly terrifying.

The Boros Collection

See also David Sokol, 'Bunker Chic,' Metropolis Magazine, Oct 17, 2007.

Peter Kennard

Peter Kennard, Haywain with Cruise Missiles (1980).

Kennard's photomontages are blunt instruments but this one has a humour and absurdity about it that sets it apart from the skulls and mushroom clouds that characterise his more Heartfield-like compositions.

Chosen Survivors

Take It then Face It

London Can Take It (1940), one of the most successful propaganda films produced in the UK during World War II, presents the chilling scenario of a city as target during total war. Directors Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings used the American journalist Quentin Reynolds to write and narrate the voiceover, which to modern ears has the effect of making the opening of the film seem a bit like an episode of the Twilight Zone, where Rod Sterling introduces in earnest tones a drama of dreadful yet often plausible horror. This admittedly superficial resemblance to popular science fiction is not so far out, perhaps, since part of the purpose of Reynolds' narration is to provide critical transatlantic distance -- to speak to an American audience that is observing from far away, as if from another world -- and at the same time to carry the sense that what happens in London makes a difference in the United States. The film toured the US in a slightly modified form as Britain Can Take It, and President Roosevelt attended a private screening. The Blitz-torn London depicted here is a disturbing world that is all too familiar and yet morbidly strange; it is both reassuring and saturated with dread.

Dirty Wars: Available 1 December 2009

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