200,000 Phantoms (2007)

Overview : In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

Release Date : July 11, 2007

Runtime : 11m

Genre : Documentary, History, War  

Companies : Jean-Gabriel Périot

Countries : France

Keywords : japan, atomic bomb, photography, world war ii, architect, artist, war memorial, collage, hiroshima, japan, sculptor, catastrophe, short film