RICHLAND
Sale Price: $16.95
Price: $Code: 5369
a film by by Irene Lusztig
2023, 93 minutes
English Dolby Digital 5.1
Closed Captions
Synopsis
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 it's 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 it's identity and future on it's 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.Special Features
Theatrical TrailerFilm Reviews
"With curiosity and care, Richland peers into the heart of a small town, acknowledges the joys, and brings the pain and loss and broken promises into the light."
- The Hollywood Reporter
"A thought-provoking and important documentary that is unafraid to lay bare how people embrace destruction if there is a place for them inside it."
- The Wrap