200000 Phantoms

Posted by Fabio 16 February 2010

In this experimental short film directed by Jean-Gabriel Periot, the history of the 20th century flies past, illustrated by 600 photographs of the Genbaku Dome. In 1914, the Genbaku Dome in Hiroshima was a dazzling center of elegant urban life in Japan. On August 6, 1945, the atomic bomb called Little Boy detonated 500 feet away from the building, killing 78,000 people and leveling the city within a single second.