For Emergency Use Only
For Emergency Use Only
A New Yorker and Earthling Films production.
Sparked by images of children today facing up to the existential threat of climate change and a global pandemic, filmmaker Daire Collins goes on a journey to discover the roots of a fear that plagued him as a young child; a total nuclear apocalypse.
“It does no good to promise a child that there are no monsters under her bed. Fears create their own realities, aided and abetted by a media landscape that thrives on the drama of blood and bone. When the documentary filmmaker Daire Collins returned to his childhood home in Northside Dublin during the pandemic, he also rediscovered an old terror.”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/what-to-make-of-childhood-fears-in-an-anxious-age
“In our modern world, whether it’s climate change, wars, nuclear fallout or pandemics, nowhere seems safe from impending doom. Few people understand this feeling better than Daire Collins, who was mesmerised as a child by a drawer in his childhood home containing iodine For Emergency Use Only.”
July 2021.