L'Île invisible
Fukushima, à la recherche de l’esprit de la zone
( The Invisible Island )

Keiko Courdy
2021 - 87 min - Video Full HD - Couleur - France

A story of nature, men, women, resilience, and failing technology. Decontamination workers of the power plant open 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 over them. Keïko Courdy has been filming every year since 2011, developing a relationship of trust, revealing the hidden traumas, and the secret life of nuclear workers in this parallel world, an invisible island.



Author-Director : Keiko Courdy
Photography : Keiko Courdy, Quentin Tyberghien, Ophélie Giomataris, Jimmy Kobayashi, Ryo Nawa
Sound : Luc Martinez
Editing : Giuliano Papacchioli
Original Music : Ryuichi Sakamoto, Seigen Ono
Delegate Producer : Pika Pika Films
Crowdfunding : Kisskissbankbank

Distribution


Distributor : Pika Pika Films