His new film, Furusato 古里, is a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone. His first feature film, The Irrational Remains, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won numerous awards around the world. His earlier film and theater work has been presented at venues such as the Locarno Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and on European television. Currently he teaches filmmaking and film studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at Boston University. He is also a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab, where he is working on a new project, The Feather Underground, which begins as a crime caper and unfolds into a deeper story about ecology, empire, and the often destructive human obsession with beauty.