Kathryn Bigelow says she made her latest political thriller, A House of Dynamite , to warn the world about the real and ever-present risks of total global nuclear annihilation.

The Oscar-winning director swept into Venice, Italy on Tuesday to unveil her first movie in eight years in competition at the world’s oldest film festival. She described the much-anticipated film’s subject, nuclear weapons, as “a global issue,” and said she was motivated by a desire to “get that information out there.”

“Hope against hope, maybe we will reduce the nuclear stockpile someday,” she added, “but in the meantime, we are really living in a house of dynamite .”

Bigelow and her cast arrived at the Venice press conference with a wave of positive buzz at their backs after House of Dynamite played fo

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