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Atomic Love
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2002
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Piotr Wyrzykowski, Iliya Chickan
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The name Chernobyl is one of the most universally recognized symbols of catastrophe in modern civilization, the best known of the closed public spaces.  Once a real city, inhabited but in a restricted zone, inaccessible to outsiders, and, according to maps, nonexistant; now famous as a symbol, but nonexistant in reality.  Deserted by the population evacuated after the catastrophe in the atomic power plant, all that remains is the decaying matter of a dead city, closed to residents but open to tourists with a taste for the outré.  A pair of lovers in search of  extreme experiences comes to Chernobyl, and in this restricted zone, on contaminated ground, they make atomic love amid lethal radiation levels of 50-120 micro-roentgens per hour.  The work borrows the esthetics of a lethargic low-class porno film.

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