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Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

Documentary | 1986-10-10 | United States of America

IMDB5.5 / 10

Budget$0

Budget$0

Runtime58 min.

Japanese husband and wife muralists Iri and Toshi Maruki are known for their depictions of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their collaborative relationship is unique: one paints a painfully detailed vision of the victims of the atomic blast; the other conceals the carefully delineated brush strokes with a grey-black ink “wash.” The first artist restates the specifics of the image; the second re-conceals. Through the repetition of this process, the work emerges.

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