Screening of the documentary '67 Bombs to Enid' followed by an in-person Q&A with its co-director, Kevin Ford.
Arkadin Cinema & Bar is screening 67 Bombs to Enid on Saturday, October 24, followed by an in-person Q&A with co-director Kevin Ford. It's a midday showing, running from 12 PM to 2:30 PM, so you'll be out by mid-afternoon.
The film is an intimate, character-driven documentary that works its way through the 67 known U.S. nuclear weapons tests carried out in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958. It weaves together first-hand accounts from that era with the testimony of the generation born after, tracing the displacement and generational trauma that followed. Along the way, it also looks at a community's insistence on joy and cultural pride. It follows Marshallese survivors and their descendants, including a community settled on the plains of Enid, Oklahoma, and speaks to the need for durable solutions to the harms of the nuclear legacy and the pursuit of nuclear justice.
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Errol Morris executive produced the film, and Dan Ingram of News9 called it "deeply moving" and "a benchmark for documentaries focusing on the people impacted by injustice and celebrating their heritage." The screening is at Arkadin, a microcinema in the heart of Bevo that programs in monthly series and whose seats are first-come, first-served. Tickets are $9.
