Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky Minot, North Dakota Austria-Stati Uniti d'America / Austria-United States of America, 2008, MiniDV, 18'
Sab 20 - h. 17.00, Teatro Dal Verme
Produzione - Production: Madangel
Produttore - Producer: Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky
Sceneggiatura - Screenplay: Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky
Montaggio - Editing: Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky
Fotografia - Cinematography: Angelika Brudniak, Cynthia Madansky
Sound editor: Quentin Chiappetta
Musica - Music: Zeena Parkins
Distribuzione - Distribution: sixpack
Come può un'intera comunità convivere con la consapevolezza di stare sopra a una gigantesca bomba? Il documentario prova a chiederselo realizzando un acuto ritratto di quella comunità. Minot, detta anche "Magic City", è una cittadina del North Dakota, orgogliosa sede di una base della U.S. Air Force. Nel suo sottosuolo sono sepolti 150 missili nucleari: queste armi di distruzione di massa vi si trovano da più di 50 anni e ancora puntano verso la Russia.
How do people get along with the knowledge that they live on an enormous bomb? A penetrating portrait of a closed community. Minot, nicknamed 'Magic City', is the proud home of a U.S. Air Force base guarding 150 nuclear missiles buried underneath the ground in North Dakota. These weapons of mass destruction were placed here almost fifty years ago and are still targeted to Russia.
Director's statement:
To live on top of 150 nuclear bombs sounds crazy and it is. Minot seems stuck in the cold war, paranoia and surveillance are everywhere. It was quite an experience to spend time there!
And it inspired us to explore the nuclear topic further; our next film complex 2030 is shot in New Mexico and will dispel the lie of "clean" nuclear energy as well as inform about the insane U.S.project to design a new generation of nuclear missiles.
Paese - Country: Angelika Brudniak: Austria / Austria, Cynthia Madansky: Stati Uniti / United States
Biografia - Biography:
Angelika Brudniak is an Austrian filmmaker from Salzburg who currently lives in Vienna and New York. She is working on "If you see something say something" a film about the rites of everyday life in the US. Her previous films include Beni Cek (Shoot Me), 2006 and Summertime in Vienna, 2007.
Cynthia Madansky is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York. Her previous films include We at her, Internal Combustion, Treyf, Past Perfect, Still Life, The PSA Project, Numbers 1-15, Elle, Alex and José. She is currently working on a feature film script based on diaries of a young Chinese woman
Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak, (MADANGEL) are currently working on a second nuclear film titled Atomic America, and a documentary about radical women.
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Angelika Brudniak:
2006 - Beni Cek. (Shoot Me.)
2007 - Summertime in Vienna 2008 Minot, North Dakota co-directed
Cynthia Madansky: 2002 - Past Perfect
2004 - Devotion
2005 - Still Life
2004-6 The PSA Project no. 1-15
2006 - Elle
2006 Alex & José
2008 Minot, North Dakota co-directed
