http://uncannyterrain.com http://tinyurl.com/uncannyterrain Filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed M. Koziarski talk about making the documentary Uncanny Terrain, ab...
The ships are a relic from a bygone age, when the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan was a rich area teeming with fish and providing a bustling trade for the surrounding communities.
After spending 30 of the past 55 weeks in Fukushima, Japan, living in places contaminated by nuclear fallout, visiting even more highly contaminated places, drinking the water and eating the food, we finally got an answer to the question we are most often asked about the making of our documentary Uncanny Terrain: just how contaminated had we, ourselves, become? http://uncannyterrain.com/blog/2012/06/14/our-results-are-in
http://uncannyterrain.com We were prepared to talk our way past a police checkpoint—or play dumb, in my case. But we drove right over the border unaccosted....
Since the disaster, 24-year-old Mizuho Sugeno has worked side-by-side with her parents on their organic farm in the tiny town of Towa in the foothills of the Abukuma Mountains. Mizuho has founded the company Seeds of Hope, dedicated to Towa’s renewal. Seeds of Hope distributes the Sugenos’ organic produce, demonstrates successful methods to prevent crops from absorbing radiation, and hosts guests to experience the idyllic farming lifestyle.
Illegal harvest in Minami-Soma?
Uncanny Terrain – A documentary series about Fukushima farmers fighting to continue growing organic food on land contaminated by nuclear fallout
Tokyo volunteers make their annual weekend trip to Kitakata in western Fukushima to help Asami clear debris from the village's 200-year-old irrigation canal. http://uncannyterrain.com/blog/2012/05/13/asamis-tokyo-volunteers/
Hiroshi Yasukawa had to stop working at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after he was exposed to 400 millisieverts of radiation. HIs hat has TEPCO and GE logos. http://uncannyterrain.com/blog/2012/05/12/organic-farmer-father-nuclear-engineer-son/
Filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed Koziarski with organic farmer Seiji Sugeno in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima This past January, while most part...
Uncanny Terrain codirector Ed M. Koziarski will screen work-in-progress footage and talk about the film with my alma mater Antioch College‘s Global Seminar on Energy, Thursday, July 19 at 1 p.m. at the Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs, OH. It’s free and open to the public. http://uncannyterrain.com/blog/2012/07/12/screening-footage-july-19-with-antioch-college-in-yellow-springs-ohio/#
Organic farmer Asami’s wife and daughters evacuated in March 2011 from Aizu, 130 km west of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Asami only saw his daughters a few times last year. In the winter, the family moved back to Aizu.
This is Serbian bicyclist Milosav Grujicic's third summer working on Seiji Sugeno's organic farm.
Father and son Saito powder their rice field with government-mandated zeolite. It’s intended to fix cesium in the soil to reduce absorption by crops, but some question its effectiveness and health impact. Fields across Fukushima are dotted with the white bags, and the white dust is everywhere. http://uncannyterrain.com/blog/2012/05/12/saitos-spread-zeolite/
Facing an uncertain future
http://tinyurl.com/uncannyterrain http://uncannyterrain.comOn Aug. 6 we attended the 66th anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack in Hiroshima, w...
http://uncannyterrain.com Uncanny Terrain is a documentary about organic farmers in Fukushima, Japan, fighting to recover their land and livelihoods from nuc...
This video, capturing the diverse views of four Fukushima activist farmers, screens beginning June 16 in the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development Co...
Peeking out from rocky gorges and flowing through a thin crack in the terrain, Reuben Wu’s drone paths conjure the uncanny.
This spring, Kith will present a multi-dimensional collection created in partnership with industry-leading brands influenced by the sand-swept terrain of Canyon Point, Utah. The Southwest’s uncanny balance of tantalizing vistas and treacherous conditions can be as rewarding as they are daunting, as the brutal elements
