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Handful of Dust

Handful of Dust

Hope Tucker | USA | 2013 | 9' |

| IFFR 2014

Rates of cancer in the film’s cast and crew reflect it being shot downwind during the period of above-ground nuclear testing. This remake is composed of hundreds of cyanotypes, exposed with the original negatives from 1954. The Prussian blue of the images is understood to counteract radiation poisoning.

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