200,000 Phantoms backdrop

200,000 Phantoms 2007 Directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot 200 000 Fantômes

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the World Expo, which has turned into ruins after the atomic bombing in August 1945. “Atomic Dome” – all that remains of the destroyed palace of the exhibition – has become part of the Hiroshima memorial. In 2007, French sculptor, painter and film director Jean-Gabriel Périot assembled this cinematic collage from hundreds of multi-format, color and black and white photographs of different years’ of “Genbaku Dome”.

Country France
Production Country France
Language French
Spoken Language French
Gneres Documentary , History , War
Production Company Jean-Gabriel Périot
Release Date 11 July 2007
11 mins