Photo by Steve Gullick
Next week, the BBC will launch BBC Four Goes Nuclear, a series dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Hiroshima. Post-rock luminaries Mogwai have scored its first installment, a Mark Cousins documentary called Storyville: Atomic - Living in Dread and Promise. It airs this Sunday at 9pm. Watch a trailer below.
Here's a blurb on the doc:
Seventy years ago this month the bombing of Hiroshima showed the appalling destructive power of the atomic bomb. Mark Cousins’ bold new documentary looks at death in the atomic age, but life too. Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Atomic shows us an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times: protest marches, Cold War sabre rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima, but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how X Rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.
Read "Looking at 20 Years of Mogwai", our career retrospective of the band.
Watch Mogwai's full set from Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2014:
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