Evolve Green Sunday- 17th April- 5pm
Screening of award winning feature length documentary Into Eternity
Dir. Michael Madsen, 2009, Denmark, 75 min
Every day, the world over, large amounts of high-level radioactive waste created by nuclear power plants is placed in interim storages, which are vulnerable to natural disasters, man-made disasters, and to societal changes. In Finland the world’s first permanent repository is being hewn out of solid rock – a huge system of underground tunnels – that must last 100,000 years as this is how long the waste remains hazardous.
Captivating, wondrous and extremely frightening, this feature documentary takes viewers on a journey never seen before into the underworld and into the future.
“Jaw-dropping! Tackles a subject almost beyond comprehension. One of the most extraordinary factual films to be shown this year. Madsen’s film does not merely ask tough questions about the implications of nuclear energy…but about how we, as a race, conceive our own future. This is nothing less than post-human architecture we are talking about. Why isn’t every government, every philosopher, every theologian, everywhere in the world discussing Onkalo and its implications? I don’t know, but they should see this film.”
- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian (UK)
Some thoughts on the Japan disaster by filmmaker Michael Madsen.
Price: £10 (£7 concessions – please call) Limited spaces, please pre-book online here or call 0207 581 4090 and check website on the day for ticket availability on the door. Latecomers after 10 minutes will not be admitted.