Title

Destroying Ourselves

Authors

Claire Weichselbaum, Washington University in St LouisFollow

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

10-2014

Abstract

This short film was created entirely from historical footage found in the Moving Images Archive at archive.org. The message of the film speaks to the disastrous consequences of a government withholding information from the public, even as the lives of its own citizens are slowly destroyed. From 1951 to as recently as 1992, the US government conducted nuclear testing at the Nevada Proving Grounds, exposing thousands of military personnel and down-wind civilians to high doses of radiation. By juxtaposing a patriotic anthem with eerie footage of soldiers under a mushroom cloud, I hope to make viewers reflect on this troublesome period in our history and what we can learn from it going forward.

Recommended Citation

Weichselbaum, Claire, "Destroying Ourselves" (2014). Access Granted Competition. 4.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/wustloa/4

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 License