With a visual trip through rocket history, Megan Shaw Prelinger, author of Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race, presents a slideshow about the past, and the future, of the technologies of design and advertising that promised deliverance from the Cold War. Her handsome volume (available at the show) represents the harvest from the fertile image-bank that is her SoMA library. ALSO IN PERSON, Jesse Lerner escapes from SoCal with the world premiere of his feature essay film, Atomic Sublime. This rich compilation doc, on the ideological role of the Abstract Expressionist movement constitutes a critically engaging inquiry into the interface of art and politics in the McCarthy era. PLUS jaw-dropping dollops of the nuclear mindset from Classifying Nuclear Weapons, Operation Ivy, Fighting Fires After Atomic Attack, a CIA filmstrip, and 3D atomic-test blasts!
