Nuclear Family

Tormented by his childhood’s nuclear fantasies, Travis Wilkerson (in co-direction with his partner Erin) exorcises his ghosts with a family road movie that takes him to Western USA after missile silos that used to promise an instant apocalypse. Far from finding large weapon bases, the Cold War hotspots he discovers in the film are no more than gray desert towns that had been stripped from their original settlers in (re)foundational bloodbaths. (Mar del Plata International Film Festival)