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Half Life

Year of completion: 1985
Content type: Documentary
Format: Feature
Genre: Drama, History, Science
Duration: 86 minutes
Production Status: Completed

With terrifying calm this film examines the facts leading up to the 'Bravo' nuclear test in 1954, when in the name of 'national security' the United States government irreversibly destroyed the fragile world of the Marshall Islanders for countless generations to come. Piece by piece the role of the United States government is uncovered and we discover the deliberate decisions that were made to allow these gentle and trusting people to be expoesed to radioactivity and then used as 'guinea pigs' to test the short and long term effects of nuclear fallout. with cold fard facts HALF-LIFE contructs an account which is far more horrifying than any dramatisation and whose truth haunts our past, present and future.

Completion Year: 1985
Genres: Drama, History, Science
Format: Feature
Production Status: Completed

Cast and Crew

Director

Dennis O’Rourke

Producer

Dennis O’Rourke

Awards

1985 — Festival Dei Popoli

1986 — Hawaii International Film Festival

1986 — Munich International Film Festival

1985 — Nyon Film Fest

1986 — San Francisco International Film Festival

1986 — DOK Leipzig

1986 — Uppsala International Short Film Festival

1986 — Berlin International Film Festival

1986 — Berlin International Film Festival

Screenings

1990 — Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation Films

1991 — Centre Georges Pompidou, Australian - Pompidou Event

1985 — Festival Dei Popoli

1990 — Hawaii International Film Festival

1986 — Hawaii International Film Festival

1988 — Houston International Film and Video Festival

1986 — Los Angeles Int Film Exposition - Filmex

1987 — Moscow International Film Festival

1986 — Munich International Film Festival

1987 — New Delhi International Film Festival

1985 — Nyon Film Fest

1990 — Festival International Du Film D'Amiens

1985 — Festival International Du Film D'Amiens

1986 — San Francisco International Film Festival

1992 — Singapore International Film Festival

1986 — USA Film Festival, Dallas

1985 — USA Film Festival, Dallas

1986 — Vancouver International Film Festival

1986 — Wellington Film Festival

1985 — Edinburgh International Film Festival

1993 — International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

1986 — Cinema Du Reel

1986 — Hong Kong International Film Festival

1986 — DOK Leipzig

1986 — Locarno International Film Festival

2001 — Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

1986 — Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival

1986 — Sundance Film Festival

1986 — Toronto International Film Festival

1986 — Uppsala International Short Film Festival

1985 — Visions du Reel - International Documentary Film Festival Nyon

1987 — Berlin International Film Festival

1986 — Berlin International Film Festival

1986 — Berlin International Film Festival

1985 — BFI London Film Festival

Sales

Australian Sales

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

International Sales

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia