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"Free entry! Life goes on in the post-nuclear exclusion zone, but this isn’t science fiction, it’s Fukushima. French filmmaker Keïko Courdy gained unprecedented access to the surreal reality that lingers after the accident, capturing the fragile spirit of this isolated place with music by the late, great, Sakamoto and David Sylvian. "
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A event held at Watershed on Tuesday 11th March. The event starts at 18:00.
Fukushima. In search of the spirit of the zone.
A story of nature, men, women, resilience, and failing technology. Decontamination workers of the power plant open secretly their daily lives to the camera.
Waves crash eternally on the shore of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Next to a white facility for radioactive waste burning, children play on the ground, black bags of contaminated soil pile up, while grass grows wild in-between.
Director Keïko Courdy went filming in the zone every year since 2011, developing a trust relationship with local people and nuclear workers. She filmed rare testimonies revealing the hidden life of this parallel world.
The film relates the stories of people who survived the tsunami and were forced to leave, people who came back to save their country, and people who came to work from very far for money, decontamination workers of Fukushima Daiichi. In the zone, invisible traumas are everywhere.
The film is a story of resilience, failed technology, and the transformation of a territory. In Japan, the government wishes to forget and go forward, but the traces can not be erased that easily.
2021 - 16/9 - HD - Color - 1h27min /in Japanese (subtitles English -French
With the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Seigen Ono.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, moderated by Benedetta Lomi (University of Bristol) and Élise Domenach (Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon)
The event is free, thanks to the generous support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
A story of nature, men, women, resilience, and failing technology. Decontamination workers of the power plant open secretly their daily lives to the camera.
Waves crash eternally on the shore of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Next to a white facility for radioactive waste burning, children play on the ground, black bags of contaminated soil pile up, while grass grows wild in-between.
Director Keïko Courdy went filming in the zone every year since 2011, developing a trust relationship with local people and nuclear workers. She filmed rare testimonies revealing the hidden life of this parallel world.
The film relates the stories of people who survived the tsunami and were forced to leave, people who came back to save their country, and people who came to work from very far for money, decontamination workers of Fukushima Daiichi. In the zone, invisible traumas are everywhere.
The film is a story of resilience, failed technology, and the transformation of a territory. In Japan, the government wishes to forget and go forward, but the traces can not be erased that easily.
2021 - 16/9 - HD - Color - 1h27min /in Japanese (subtitles English -French
With the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Seigen Ono.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director, moderated by Benedetta Lomi (University of Bristol) and Élise Domenach (Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon)
The event is free, thanks to the generous support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
Entry requirements: 14+, any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult 1:1 ratio
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