Atomic Ed and the Black Hole
2001 film by Ellen Spiro
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| Directed by | Ellen Spiro |
| Produced by | Ellen Spiro Karen Bernstein |
| Cinematography | Ellen Spiro |
| Edited by | Karen Skloss |
| Distributed by | HBO/Cinemax Documentary |
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Running time | 40 minutes |
Atomic Ed and the Black Hole is a documentary released in 2001 by filmmaker, Ellen Spiro.[1] The documentary was made for HBO's Cinemax Reel Life Series. Sheila Nevins served as Executive Producer and Lisa Heller served as Supervising Producer. Karen Bernstein served as Producer. Laurie Anderson 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.
Atomic Ed is the proprietor of “The Black Hole”, a second-hand 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[2]
- 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
References
External links
- Atomic Ed and the Black Hole at IMDb
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Organizations
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groups
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groups
- Abalone Alliance
- Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
- Clamshell Alliance
- Committee for Nuclear Responsibility
- Corporate Accountability International
- Critical Mass Energy Project
- Friends of the Earth
- Greenpeace USA
- Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
- Mothers for Peace
- Musicians United for Safe Energy
- Nevada Desert Experience
- Nuclear Control Institute
- Nuclear Information and Resource Service
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Plowshares movement
- Ploughshares Fund
- Public Citizen
- Shad Alliance
- Sierra Club
- Three Mile Island Alert
- Women Strike for Peace
- Kings Bay Plowshares
- Daniel Berrigan
- William J. Bichsel
- Bruce G. Blair
- Larry Bogart
- Helen Caldicott
- Barry Commoner
- Norman Cousins
- Frances Crowe
- Carrie Barefoot Dickerson
- Paul M. Doty
- Bernard T. Feld
- Randall Forsberg
- John Gofman
- Paul Gunter
- John Hall
- Jackie Hudson
- Sam Lovejoy
- Amory Lovins
- Bernard Lown
- Arjun Makhijani
- Gregory Minor
- Hermann Joseph Muller
- Ralph Nader
- Graham Nash
- Linus Pauling
- Eugene Rabinowitch
- Phil Radford
- Bonnie Raitt
- Carl Sagan
- Martin Sheen
- Karen Silkwood
- Thomas
- Louis Vitale
- Harvey Wasserman
- Victor Weisskopf
Main
protest
sites
protest
sites
- Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
- Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon
- Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power
- Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978
- The Cult of the Atom
- The Doomsday Machine (book)
- Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
- Killing Our Own
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant
- Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West
- Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System
- Nuclear Politics in America
- We Almost Lost Detroit
- Atomic Ed and the Black Hole
- The China Syndrome
- Countdown to Zero
- Dark Circle
- Nuclear Tipping Point
- Silkwood
