Prof. Marty Lucas’ screening & discussion Hiroshima Bound at
Roosevelt House (47-49 E.65th Street, NYC)
Friday, September 30, 2016 @ 6:00 pm
HIROSHIMA BOUND is a personal documentary that tracks the construction of America’s collective memory (or lack of one) of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It follows the histories of specific photos and photographers, both Japanese and American, who visited Nagasaki and Hiroshima in the aftermath of the 1945 bombings, counterposing this visual legacy with the stories of survivors, whose practice of speaking to small groups of students offers a modest but powerful alternative to the official record … more info.