The Demon Core (2023)






short film | American Film Institute
concept and shot by Ariano Treviño Angelone
creative direction by Rhys Raskin

production design by Yun Gu

In 1946, a plutonium core went supercritical in a Los Alamos lab.
The flash lasted less than a second - enough to kill those nearby.
It became known as the Demon Core Incident.