THE MYSTERY OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC ANOMALY
Throughout all its history, humanity desperately tried to invent new, more powerful, more deadly weapons. Ironically, the only time it tried to create something to save itself, it caused harm much more colossal than all of those inventions. The year is 1983, and you are witnessing the magnetopocalypse while sitting at the TV screen.
All the full-length Panos Cosmatos' films are set in the year 1983, which he himself describes not as an exact year in human history, but rather some kind of a fantasy realm, where all the fears of this era live. This project follows this thought and uses a common alternate story scenario, in which an atomic warfare actually happened right after the miraculously fast launching of the SDI.
Thanks to it, mistakenly sent Soviet warheads did not reach their destination and exploded in Earth’s orbit. An almost simultaneous explosion of more than a hundred nuclear charges in the exosphere of the planet provoked multiple fluctuations in its magnetic field, and then its partial disappearance. Soon, an anomaly over the Atlantic began to expand, which attracted the close attention of scientists. When it reached the United States, it provoked a fatal disruption in the operation of all equipment, leaving the entire East Coast without any communications, electricity or vehicles. After a more detailed study of the anomalous zone, scientists came to the conclusion that what they considered a violent geomagnetic storm turned out to be something completely different. Due to the lack of radio and television broadcasts in the whole country, VHS distributors have become the only source of entertainment for citizens, sending them different tapes by subscription. The following film was on one of such videotapes.
The nature of the North Atlantic Anomaly will stay a mystery, unless there is someone left to solve it.
