Ana Vaz Discusses the Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the Work of Yoko Hayasuke and Preferring to Be a Mother Rather than a Zombie

Ana Vaz Discusses the Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the Work of Yoko Hayasuke and Preferring to Be a Mother Rather than a Zombie

“When you begin again, you repeat everything,” reflects experimental filmmaker Ana Vaz, thinking of her home country Brazil and the setting of her new feature, “Hanabi,” in Japan. “There’s a normalization of the state of catastrophe and disaster necessary for the system to perpetrate itself. It needs catastrophe in order to exist.” In the wake […]

Hanabi — Ana Vaz [Locarno '26 Review]

“Four years have passed since the accident. You feel that your relationship to radioactive contamination is changing,” intones the narrator near the beginning of Ana Vaz’s Hanabi in an intimate, yet almost affectless, voice. The accident in question is the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which displaced over 160,000 people. The “you” she is referring to [...] The post Hanabi — Ana Vaz [Locarno ’26 Review] appeared first on In Review Online.