Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Nuclear Nation (2014)


Director: Atushi Funahashi 
Run Time: 96 min. 
Call Number:TK1365.J3 N835 2014 

"Though mentioned only once, Hiroshima and Nagasaki loom large over Nuclear Nation, an assured and sobering documentary that charts the situation in Futaba, Japan, shortly after the 2011 meltdown at the nearby Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. . . . Employing straightforward, music-free aesthetics that express the grim realities of his story, director Funahashi captures both grief and outrage in equal measure, all of it tinged with the displaced and desolate citizens' regret over having predicated their fates on the very energy-source technology that cost them so much during WWII." 
                                                                     —Nick Schager, Village Voice