Letter to T: in a nuclearity, we are connected
Synopsis
With a contemplative letter to a friend as its point of departure, this video essay examines the complex paradoxical visuality of the atom bomb in China. From 1960s military documentaries to contemporary CGI enhanced fictions, a visual trope of the communal “People’s Bomb” was orchestrated in counterpoint to the evils of imperialism and the untamed wilderness of the Gobi Desert. Amid the ecological crises of the anthropocene, Letter to T suggests that despite the disenchantment with and the repoliticization of the image, we might find radical sources of connection and endurance in nuclearity.
Schedule
1st Screening
6 December 2023, 15:30 GMT+7
Credits
Zimu Zhang
Zimu Zhang is a researcher, curator, and moving image practitioner. She completed her PhD research on ecology and visual culture in 2022 at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. She is an alumna of DocNomads Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in documentary filmmaking (2012–2014), SIC (SoundImageCulture, 2016), and Berlinale Talents (2016). She is the recipient of the 2022 Landhaus fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU and 2023 VisitANTS fellowship in Critical Studies of Biodiversity and the Anthropocene Research at University of Oulu, Finland.
