76 minutes, color, 2024

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On the 58th anniversary of J. Robert Oppenheimer's death comes a meditation on the birth of the nuclear age.

July 16, 1945: in the desert of New Mexico, the Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test, the detonation of the first nuclear bomb. In an instant shrouded in secrecy, the world was forever changed. What followed – the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, thousands of nuclear tests, and a Cold War arms race – further clarified the new danger. Mankind now had the power to destroy all life on Earth.

TRINITY is a philosophical movie about the birth of the nuclear age and the silences that surround it. Filmed over six days, it captures mysterious sights from the atomic Southwest: a dark obelisk marking ground zero; an owl-themed bar haunted by ghosts of nuclear scientists; Trinitite for sale at a local rock shop.

Through first-person accounts from downwinders, uranium miners, and witnesses to the Trinity blast, it highlights what has been left out by official histories – about New Mexico, Navajo Nation, and Japan. Weaving together interviews with archival footage, camcorder recordings, and haunting music, TRINITY juxtaposes government narratives about the nuclear age with the lived reality of citizens, leaving viewers to meditate on the ironies that emerge.

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"Trinity, a scrappy little documentary from Martina Car and Anthony Audi, takes a closer look at the people and places that have never recovered from their chapter in the Manhattan Project story. It’s a hopeful sign that this film is one of several recent attempts to show the true cost of atomic testing and the subsequent bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima." - Liz Braun, Alliance of Women Film Journalists (full review)

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