On the morning of July 16, 1945, in the desert of New Mexico, the Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test, the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant shrouded in secrecy, the world was forever changed. What followed – the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thousands of nuclear tests, and a Cold War arms race – further clarified the new danger. Mankind now had the power to destroy all life on Earth.
TRINITY is a philosophical movie about the birth of the nuclear age and the silences that surround it. Filmed over six days, it captures mysterious sights from the atomic Southwest: a dark obelisk marking ground zero; an owl-themed bar haunted by ghosts of nuclear scientists; Trinitite for sale at a local rock shop.
Through first-person accounts from downwinders, uranium miners, and witnesses to the Trinity blast, it highlights what has been left out by official histories – about New Mexico, Navajo Nation, and Japan. Weaving together interviews with archival footage, camcorder recordings, and haunting music, TRINITY juxtaposes government narratives about the nuclear age with the lived reality of citizens, leaving viewers to meditate on the ironies that emerge.
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