6 pm: Optional guided tours of the Museum
​7 pm: Artist talk followed by the screening and opening celebration

Built at the height of the Cold War to withstand a five-megaton nuclear assault, the Diefenbunker is a massive underground, four-storey, 100,000-square-foot fortress designed and constructed entirely in secrecy in 1959. Decommissioned in 1994, this extraordinary relic of another time has found new life as a museum, events venue, and exhibition and performance space.

Inspired by the objects, rooms, and spaces of this National Historic Site, the Diefenbunker’s 2017 artist-in-residence, Pixie Cram, has created a short film that explores the realities of nuclear war, an issue she is passionate about. Pixie is a Quebec filmmaker whose work includes fiction, animation, documentary films, and installation art. She has explored the theme of war in her previous films The Factory of Light (2007) and Joan (2016).