200,000 Phantoms (2007)

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

Released

2007-07-11

Genres

Documentary, History, War

Runtime

11 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Jean-Gabriel Périot, Jean-Gabriel Périot

TMDB rating

7.4/10 from 11 votes