''Atomic Ed and the Black Hole'' is a
documentary released in 2001 by filmmaker,
Ellen Spiro
Ellen Spiro is an American documentary filmmaker. She was a producer and director of a television documentary '' Are the kids alright?'', which won an Emmy Award in 2005.
She is a professor emerita of the University of Texas at Austin, where ...
. The
documentary was made for
HBO's
Cinemax
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Reel Life Series.
Sheila Nevins
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served as Executive Producer and Lisa Heller served as Supervising Producer.
Karen Bernstein served as Producer.
Laurie Anderson
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provided her song, Big Science, for the soundtrack.
Ed Grothus (“Atomic Ed”) is a machinist-turned-atomic junk collector who more than 30 years ago quit his job of making atomic bombs and began collecting non-radioactive high-tech nuclear waste discarded from the
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory (often shortened as Los Alamos and LANL) is one of the sixteen research and development laboratories of the United States Department of Energy (DOE), located a short distance northwest of Santa Fe, New Mexico, ...
.
Atomic Ed is the proprietor of “The Black Hole”, a
second-hand
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Risks
Furniture, in particular bedding or upholstere ...
shop and, next door, curator of the unofficial museum of the nuclear age. His collection reveals and preserves the history of government waste that was literally thrown in a trash heap.
Awards and festival screenings
*Best Documentary Short, South by Southwest Film Festival, 2001
*Audience Award and Judges Competition First Place Award, Alibi Short Film Fiesta, Albuquerque, 2001
*Melbourne International Film Festival, 2001
*Hot Springs International Film Festival, 2001
*Peace and Justice Filmmaker's Award, 2001
*San Francisco Documentary Festival, 2001
*SITE Santa Fe, 2001.
Articles
*Halleck, Deedee
Hand Held Visions: Atomic Ed and the Black Hole 2007-4-12. Retrieved on 2007-6-20.
*MacDonald, Scott
Pioneering Spirit: An Interview with Ellen Spiro Public Culture Duke University Press. 14.3 (2002) 469-475. Retrieved on 2007-6-25.
See also
*
List of films about nuclear issues
This is a list of films about nuclear issues:
Documentary films
* ''Ashes to Honey''
* '' The Atom Strikes!''
* ''The Atomic Cafe''
* '' Atomic Ed and the Black Hole''
* '' Atomic Power''
* '' The Bomb (2015)''
* '' Chernobyl Heart''
* ''Command ...
*
List of books about nuclear issues
This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power.
*''The Algebra of Infinite Justice'' (2001)
*'' American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J ...
References
External links
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2001 films
2001 documentary films
American documentary films
Anti-nuclear films
Documentary films about New Mexico
Documentary films about nuclear war and weapons
Films directed by Ellen Spiro
Los Alamos County, New Mexico
Films shot in New Mexico
2000s English-language films
2000s American films