Consider two brilliant, complementary, documentary films, both finished in 2016-17, both set diegetically five years after the 11 March 2011 ("3.11") Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, tsunami, meltdown, and radiation release of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors. Healing Fukushima (2016-17) is filmed and directed by STS scholar and EASTS contributor Sulfikar Amir of Singapore's Nanyang Technical University (NTU). Furusato (2011-16, winner of a Leipzig International Film Festival Golden Dove) is directed, written, and filmed by Thorsten Trimpop (now of the School of the Art Institute Chicago; coproduced with Tobias Büchner). Both films are motivated by their director's life histories: Amir, by his experiences with the antinuclear movement in Indonesia, about which he made his first film, Nuklir Jawa (2012), part of a long-term engagement with Southeast Asian wariness about efforts to build new nuclear power plants in Vietnam and elsewhere in the region; Trimpop, by his childhood memories growing up in Germany in the shadow of Chemobyl's level-7 nuclear disaster.
