As The Manhattan Project developed, hundreds of test bombings were carried out in an accidental lake that's come to be known as The Salton Sea. Located in California's Imperial Valley, the state's largest lake is located in a region that's essential for American agriculture, migratory birds, and largely stewarded by the Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla tribe. Decades after test bombings have ceased, the region and its residents are now struggling with their ongoing reverberations in the form of looming ecological collapse.
AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB, or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plentyweaves together intersecting narratives, including the nation's highest asthma rates among children, the haunting memories of Native American tribal genocide, massive monocultural farming culminating in cataclysmic fish and bird die-offs, and the exploitation of immigrant laborers, to illuminate the continued extractive use of this idiosyncratic region.
At a time of resurgent nuclear rhetoric and ongoing attempts to sanitize our national past, the film challenges the notion of a single, static, and benevolent American history.
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