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Documenting nuclear effects on indigenous peoples

Children of Armageddon/May the Bomb Be With You spotlights nuclear bombing suvivors, Ten Thousand Things: 1 March 2010, –in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Tahiti & New ZealandVancouver-based film director Fabienne Lips-Dumas creates a cinematic portrait of the legacy of some of the world’s 2,000 nuclear bomb explosions–focusing on Japan, the Marshall Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand and the planet–in her 2009 documentary film Children of Armageddon/May the Bomb Be With You:
In the face of a potential nuclear renaissance, this passionate and deeply moving account explores the legacy of nuclear arms in Japan, the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia, New Zealand, and around the world.  The film features Noam Chomsky, Hans Blix, Judge C.G. Weeramantry, Arjun Makhijani, and Douglas Roche.

With the reality of a nuclear threat more and more present – especially because of recent U.S. politics – Maki, the granddaughter of a Hiroshima bombing survivor,…Evelyn, originally from the Marshall Islands….Mauréa, a young, Tahitian, anti-nuclear activist…..In New Zealand, an anti-nuclear country, we meet Annie. ….These young women introduce us to the film’s themes: the rewriting of history for the purposes of political opportunism, the reality of new nuclear arms, planetary contamination, the anti-missile shield program, and peace movements.

From Hiroshima, the Marshall Islands, Tahiti, and New Zealand, to Vienna, Washington D.C., and Vancouver we hear the accounts of scientists, media and political experts, activists, and, of course, the descendants – who cling to the hope that their testimony can free us from the threat of sudden destruction.

Ten Thousand Things: Children of Armageddon/May the Bomb Be With You spotlights nuclear bombing suvivors–in Japan, the Marshall Islands, Tahiti & New Zealand

March 4, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive