Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

58 mins | Documentary | Oct. 10, 1986

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.

Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima

58 mins | Documentary | Oct. 10, 1986

Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
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.
Producers
Original title Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
Directors James MacDonald, Michael Camerini, John Junkerman
Writers