A nuclear disaster filmed entirely through TEPCO's own security webcam. They didn't know art was watching.
Three months after the March 2011 disaster in Fukushima, TEPCO, the electric company operating the nuclear power plant, installed a livecam on the facilities. The images, on which days and minutes add up, are available online. Using them for sole visual material, such is the daring challenge Philippe Rouy has taken up in 4 bâtiments, face à la mer. (Nicola Féodoroff, FID 2012)
Direction
Rouy's radical constraint: found footage as political weapon.
Editing
Time-lapse as narrative—minutes become months of denial.
Director
Philippe Rouy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
US
