Fukushima and the Cinema of Slow Death
- Thursday, June 4, 18:00 Mousonturm Studio 3
- Admission free
- A lecture by Dan O’Neill in English
- CANCELLED
Dan O'Neill, Associate Professor at Berkeley, will discuss the recent surge of documentary films on Fukushima. By focusing on the works of Atsushi FUNAHASHI, Toshi FUJIWARA and others, he explores how these films respond to the ethical demands of the disasters and address the political, cultural and economic aftermaths. As they take up the questions of scale and representation, the films offer not only a critique of the ongoing discursive attempts to recalibrate “risk” but also an orientation to the affective contours of ecological degradation, to the collective work of survival and belonging. As a conclusion, this lecture explores the reframing effects of these films within and beyond Japan in order to understand how the cinema of Fukushima reimagines catastrophic relations in East Asia by bringing into the fold the entangled concerns of nuclear energy and longterm sustainability.