MMoCA Cinema: Richland
November 20, 2024
7:00 pm
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
227 State Street
Madison, WI, 53703
Overview
MMoCA Cinema: Richland
Wednesday, November 20 • 7 PM • Lecture Hall • Free for Members, $7 for Nonmembers
Richland | Irene Lusztig | USA | 2023| 93 minutes
Richland, Washington is proud of its heritage as a nuclear company town and proud of the atomic bomb it helped create. It was built by the US government to house the Hanford nuclear site workers who manufactured weapons-grade plutonium for the Manhattan Project. Richland offers a prismatic, placemaking portrait of a community staking its identity and future on its nuclear origin story, presenting a timely examination of the habits of thought that normalize the extraordinary violence of the past.