Short film
Crossroads
1976 · 36 min
A hypnotic, unsettling meditation on destruction, unfolding in slow motion with eerie sound design and haunting music.
- Directed by
- Bruce Conner
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- The 1945 atomic-bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll becomes a thing of terrible beauty and haunting visual poetry when shown in extreme slow motion, shown from 27 different angles, and accompanied by avant-garde Western classical music composed for electric organ by Terry Riley. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Pacific Film Archive in 1995.
- How it feels
- Eerie, dark, bleak and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- War, death, technology, nature
- Content
- Mild violence. No gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Bruce Conner
- Genres
- Documentary