In a cinematic landscape cluttered with didactic documentaries and verbose visual essays on atomic history, “The Bomb” emerges as a…
A Revisitation of ‘The Atomic Café’ (1982)
In the landscape of documentary filmmaking, few works resonate with the eerie timbre of contemporary relevance as poignantly as “The…
The Twilight Zone’s Tackling of Atomic Age Anxieties
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, as the Cold War escalated, America found itself grappling with the existential dread…
Reimagining the Atomic Age in “For All Mankind”
“For All Mankind” is a captivating streaming series that immerses its audience in a reality of the space race going…
On Being Gay in the Atomic Age: A Reflection on the Depiction of the Red and Lavender Scares and the AIDS Crisis in “Fellow Travelers” (2023)
“The importance of this context in “Fellow Travelers” lies in its ability to illuminate a dark period in American history,…
The film Oppenheimer, seen through my eyes
“Oppenheimer,” a film directed by Christopher Nolan, is an enthralling biographical film that chronicles the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer,…
nevada-semipalatinsk I-IX, 2023, on view at the US embassy in Astana, Kazakhstan, until 2025
The Risograph prints incorporate my drawing and fragments of images of the struggle to close the Soviet Semipalatinsk testing site in Kazakhstan.…
radiophobia, 2023
A work informed by the human fear of radiation, in spite of it being an all-pervasive natural phenomenon. Mixed media…
nuclear defense waste, 2023
A work inspired by the deleteriously entangled relationship between defense and energy applications of atomic forces in the sensationalist press…
cherenkov radiation, 2023
A video work inspired by Cherenkov radiation, a form of energy that we can perceive as a blue glow emitted…
Ángel Rafael Vázquez-Concepción 