Short film
Loading Pit
2019 · 10 min
A still, unsettling meditation on a silent desert relic, where a droning manual reading makes you feel the weight of hidden history.
- Directed by
- Lukas Marxt
- Overview
- In an anticlimactic minimalist staging, the camera stands still in a remote corner of the Utah desert, revealing an atomic bomb loading pit used for military practice, while a voice over reads parts of the unclassified user manual “How to built an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit” released to the public in June 1946. The sonic suspension imposed by the computerized slowness of the subjectless reader frames the deep time dimension of this arid dusty landscape in Wendover. We are led through details of the manual, which suggests forms to best-adapt to the terrain, climate, soil conditions in the pit area, to allow for the needed cleanliness and security precautions for Boeing B-29 atomic bomb loading.
- How it feels
- Eerie, bleak and melancholic. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- War, technology, isolation, memory
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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