Loading Pit (2019)

In an anticlimactic minimalist staging the camera stands still in a remote corner of the Utah desert revealing an atomic bomb loading pit used for military practice while a voice over reads parts of the unclassified user manual How to built an Atomic Bomb Loading Pit released to the public in June 1946 The sonic suspension imposed by the computerized slowness of the subjectless reader frames the deep time dimension of this arid dusty landscape in Wendover We are led through details of the manual which suggests forms to bestadapt to the terrain climate soil conditions in the pit area to allow for the needed cleanliness and security precautions for Boeing B29 atomic bomb loading