In 1976 groundbreaking collagist, sculptor, and filmmaker Bruce Conner released his magnum opus, a thirty-seven-minute assemblage of US government footage of the iconic Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test. The Exploding Digital Inevitable is a documentary essay by Ross Lipman, who oversaw the restoration of Conner’s Crossroads in 2012. Integrating an array of movie and audio clips, still photographs, and rare archival documents, Lipman tells the story of Crossroads and Conner’s collaboration with Terry Riley and Patrick Gleeson, including original interviews with both composers. Presented together, Crossroads and its unique production history come into view as one of the most profound meditations on the nuclear era.