New Light-Narrowcast

C-prints, declassified nuclear test footage, sunlight, WW2 era tube radio, AM transmitter, sound. Projection dimension variable. Audio duration: 5:45 duration.

New Light-Narrowcast is an experimental film and a video installation comprised of declassified nuclear test footage and audio played via a WW2 era radio. Kei Ito reprocessed the footage from tests done on American soil as thousands of separate photograms, using sunlight to remake each frame before re-compiling them into video. As installed as part of our 2019 SECCA exhibition Archives Aflame, the audio plays out from a 1943 Philco tube radio, in tortured tinny oratory that laments the spectacle of the new light portrayed in the film as it contemplates the experiences of Downwinders who unknowingly suffered medical consequences in the aftermath of atomic tests, folding their experience over the imagined victims of future nuclear attacks.

New Light-Narrowcast was exhibited for a second time in the School 33 40th Anniversary Exhibition in December 2019.