Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise

Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise
Directed byMark Cousins
Produced by
Music byMogwai
Release date
  • 10 August 2015 (2015-08-10)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise is a documentary film about nuclear history directed by Mark Cousins and Produced by Heather Croall, Mark Atkin and John Archer. It uses only archive footage to explore life and death in the atomic age. The band Mogwai created the original soundtrack. The film, with a live performance by Mogwai, closed the Edinburgh International Festival in 2016. It was then shown on BBC Storyville to mark 70 years since the bombing of Hiroshima.[1] The soundtrack was subsequently reworked by Mogwai into a studio album, Atomic.

  1. ^ Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise, bbc.co.uk, retrieved 12 October 2016