Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

• Movies
• 1986-10-10
• EN
• Released
• 0h 58m
• Documentary

• 5.5
• 4

Storyline

Japanese husband and wife muralists Iri and Toshi Maruki are known for their depictions of the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Their collaborative relationship is unique: one paints a painfully detailed vision of the victims of the atomic blast; the other conceals the carefully delineated brush strokes with a grey-black ink “wash.” The first artist restates the specifics of the image; the second re-conceals. Through the repetition of this process, the work emerges.