SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE HIDDEN  REALITIES OF AIR by Sam Drake

SUSPICIONS ABOUT THE
HIDDEN  REALITIES OF AIR

by Sam Drake
16mm / 2025 / USA / 9’ 7’’


Fragmented records reveal a concealed history of Cold War–era human radiation experiments, surfacing through a haze of manipulation and embedded studies.
Desert dust settles into teeth, inscribing a residual record. Contaminated images conjure the unseen.
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Sam Drake is a filmmaker whose work has screened at film festivals and venues including The Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Media City Film Festival, The Museum of the Moving Image, Courtisane Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, European Media Art Festival, CROSSROADS, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Antimatter, Non-Syntax Experimental Image, and EXiS. She currently lives in Milwaukee, where she teaches and programs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.