Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Hiroshima, the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, protest, medical research, Chernobyl, MRI scans, Fukushima. The atomic world has been a paradise lost. 

Using only archive footage – news reports, cosmic imagery, x-ray photography, astronaut training films, etc. – Mark Cousins’ acclaimed film captures the dreams and nightmares of the atomic age. A chilling, mesmeric, hallucinated visual experience enhanced by a haunting and (at-times) thundering score by Mogwai.