February 1, 2024 | 6:00 p.m. | The Lyric | $12 General Admission | $6 Students with ID | Tickets
Director Irene Lusztig will be in-person for a post-film Q&A
Presented by: ACT Human Rights Film Festival and Center for Fine Art Photography
Built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project, Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. RICHLAND offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past. Moving between archival past and observational present, and across encounters with nuclear workers, community members, archeologists, local tribes, and a Japanese granddaughter of atomic bomb survivors, the film blooms into an expansive and lyrical meditation on home, safety, whiteness, land, and deep time. Read The Hollywood Reporter’s review of the film.
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With thanks to City of Fort Collins – Fort Fund and National Endowment for the Arts.