"The Bomb" Filmscreening

In the organizer's words:

As part of the exhibition ARTISTS AGAINST THE BOMB, ICAN Germany is showing the film "The bomb" by Smriti Keshari and Eric Schlosser.

More than seven decades have passed since a city was destroyed by a nuclear bomb. But the danger remains. Today we are confronted with a world in which nine countries possess around 15,000 nuclear weapons. Many of the weapons in the US arsenal are up to 20 times more powerful than the bomb that was detonated in Hiroshima.

"The bomb" takes viewers right into the history of nuclear weapons - from the Trinity test in 1945 to the current state in 2017. The film shows the immense power of nuclear weapons, their sophisticated technology, the missiles and bombers built for them, and the deep death wish at the heart of these weapons. Viewers experience nuclear tests and accidents as well as the technological and cultural impact of nuclear weapons. The film contains archive footage, animations, text and music. The images and stories are non-linear, but large, memorable and inescapable.

The movie lasts about 55 minutes.