Four Minutes, Full Volume, 2023
4K Digital video with audio
28:23 min
Four Minutes, Full Volume, documents emergency siren tests within the Emergency Planning Zone of the decommissioned Indian Point Nuclear Energy Plant, just north of New York City on the Hudson River. The film's five siren tests each run for four minutes at a single tone of 580 Hz. The tests include diegetic sound from sites within the zone, like neighborhood ponds, West Point Military Academy, memorials, marinas and highway overpasses. Through these meditative static scenes of the evacuation zone and the siren’s sound, the work highlights the ambiguity of grappling with the ubiquitous nuclear infrastructure around us.