Oregon Department of Kick Ass

Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon's powerful iconic landmark, goes adios.
Score by Sam Coomes of Quasi.
Shot by Eric Edwards

The Portrait Series is part of an ongoing series of filmed places, stories and histories of Cascadia with scores by musicians living in the Pacific Northwest.

 "The astonishing five-minute color film was shot in 35MM and transferred to video, sporting a perfectly synched musical score by Quasi's Sam Coomes. No narrative, just a picturesque haunting reminder of our lives under the totem of a nuclear state. Long defunct, the monumental tower was imploded earlier this year and Renwick (of Oregon Department of Kick Ass) decided to capture the haunting silhouette that has simply stood there menacingly for years. She calmly documents its demise, which is very much an anti-climax. The short film adores its subject, the towering cement structure. Over a varying course of time, with lapse and stills we view a building painted in pastel light, stark at night, at dawn and dusk. Its inevitable course in its history would be told through a moment in time when it was no more. In essence, the very moment of implosion infers the ultimate destructive potential of its former chilling power. The film, shot by veteran cameraman Eric Alan Edwards (To Die For, Copland, The Break-Up), is stunning to watch, and perfectly blunt."
TJ Norris

And also take a gander at

Vanessa Renwick's Portrait #2: Trojan at 2006 Oregon Biennial by Jeff Jahn in PORT