Machinarium

During his speech at the party congress in October 2017, President Xi Jinping presented his infrastructure and partnership project with China bordering countries, this project translated "one belt-one road" aims to strengthen the empire influence in the world and to ensure the modernization of a rapid economic growth country. The victims of this tidal wave are the people of Datong, who see their homes and their historic legacies destroyed in the name of modernity.

For a few years now, the Japanese government has been building complexes called "renewal housing estates" in the very heart of Fukushima Prefecture. More than a decade after the accident, the region, still heavily contaminated, has seen the emergence of these concrete neighborhoods, enclosed in the midst of wild, radioactive nature. This film paints an intimate portrait of the people who live there and offers a poetic reflection on the region.