Tribeca Film Festival Adds Multimedia Nuclear Weapon Experience 'the bomb'

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Source: The Wrap

The world premiere of “the bomb,” a multimedia experience that explores the nuclear threat by combining a 360-degree film screen, a panel discussion featuring Michael Douglas and a live performance by the band The Acid, will highlight the interactive and experiential program at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, TFF organizers announced on Wednesday.

The installation and performance will take place at Gotham Hall on the final weekend of the festival, April 23 and 24. A look at the culture of nuclear weapons and the difficulty of controlling them, “the bomb” will place the audience in an enclosed oval space surrounded by 30-foot screens, which will show a film created by “Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser and filmmaker and artist Smriti Keshari, with input from filmmaker Kevin Ford.

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The performance will be preceded by a panel discussion featuring Schlosser, Keshari, the MacArthur Foundation’s Emma Belcher, Ploughshares Fund’s Joe Cirincione, director Robert Kenner and actor and nuclear non-proliferation activist Michael Douglas.

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After its Tribeca Film Festival world premiere, “the bomb” will travel to Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris and Berlin, among other cities.

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Read more: http://www.thewrap.com/tribeca-film-festival-adds-multimedia-nuclear-weapon-experience-the-bomb/

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1. Cool.

My husband has been an anti-nuke activist for years and years.

He is going--as a member of PSR (Physicians for Social Responsibility)-- to a 4 day event in DC in April
where they will lobby members of Congress about nuclear weapons.

http://www.psr.org/news-events/events/27th-annual-dc-days-2016.html

http://www.psr.org/nuclear-weapons/get-involved.html

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2. I watched "Threads" when I was young. I've been against nuclear weapons ever since. n/t