Gold Dust

Gold Dust

Gold Dust is not just a film of Iain Sinclair reading from his book Ghost Milk, beautifully accompanied by Bill Parry-Davies on Saxophone.

In Gold Dust, Sinclair calls time on London’s Grand Olympic Project. He reveals another side to the Olympic landscape, one crisscrossed by trains carrying nuclear waste, siroccos of toxic dust, and other details the authorities would rather we didn’t know.

Gold Dust begins in 1901 when Marie Curie discovers radium, and the nuclear age is born. In the 63 years following, before someone decides the disposal of radioactive materials must be restrained - in those years of science, industry, and war, Britain develops nuclear power and The Bomb, while other industries are routinely using radioactive materials. Also between those years, in an industrial backwater and dumping ground in the East of London, radioactive wastes are buried.

Gold Dust reveals that decades later in that same burial ground, an oubliette imprisoning waste of the early nuclear age, the Olympic gold rush begins. The 5 ringed tomb robbers have no time to lose, and show no mercy to a repository of mysterious elemental forces. Amid the poisons of industrial exploitation, the prospectors, the architects of dust, their thousand mechanical excavators, churn every inch of this sacred earth.

Category: American History

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