Testament: Motherhood & the Bomb in 1980s Suburbia

An old television set’s screen is black, with the word “ALERT” going across it in big white capital letters. To the left and running behind it is the bottom of a white window sill with white curtains with daylight behind them. Below this, to the slide and slightly in front of the corner of the TV is a record player, the other half of which is cut off by the frame.

|Penny Folger| Bleak Week, which began at the American Cinematheque in 2022, partially as an ironic response to the pandemic, has now spread globally and is making its triumphant return to Trylon Cinema. This time with Testament, the story of a family in a small town on the outskirts of San Francisco in the aftermath of… Continue reading

The Real Sequel to Mad Max: How to Explain the Apocalypse in The Road Warrior by Watching Threads

Just after a nuclear explosion, the silhouette of a man on a bike in a tree burns in an orange blaze.

| Ben Jarman | Nobody is surprised when it happens; it’s been coming for a long time, before written history. One argument turns into conflict after conflict. Sometimes the conflicts bring us to the brink, but never over the edge. The scholars warn and the media antagonize… Continue reading