Event Listing - Movies, Museums
Thu Jul 30 - Sat Aug 8

SFMOMA presents

"The Atomic Cafe" & "The Family Fallout Shelter"

part of the Richard Avedon Film Series


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$5
Tickets

Location
Date and Time
SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103 map
cross street: between Mission & Howard
district: SoMa

Thu Jul 30 (7PM) - Phyllis Wattis Theater
Sat Aug 1 (3PM) - Phyllis Wattis Theater
Sat Aug 8 (3PM) - Phyllis Wattis Theater

Description
The Atomic Cafe
1982, 86 min., video

The Family Fallout Shelter
ca. 1960; 14 min., 16mm

After discovering a catalogue of U.S. government films in a San Francisco bookstore, director Pierce Rafferty worked with his co-directors Kevin Rafferty and Jayne Loader for more than five years to assemble the collage film The Atomic Cafe. Bringing together archival film clips of atomic bomb tests, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and civil defense films of the cold war, the film highlights the absurdity of our nation's nuclear "education." At one time, it seemed, "duck and cover" might save us from the atomic end of the world.

The Family Fallout Shelter is a lighthearted narrative short that recounts a young boy's wish to get a nuclear fallout shelter for Christmas. English received a Director's Guild award for the film in 1962.

Part of Richard Avedon: Notes on "Nothing Personal".

$5 general; free for SFMOMA members or with museum admission.