Response to Michael M. J. Fischer’s Review of Healing Fukushima, Part 2

"Response to Michael M. J. Fischer’s Review of Healing Fukushima, Part 2." East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 13(2), pp. 359–360

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Thorsten Trimpop

Thorsten Trimpop is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Chicago. His latest film, Furusato 古里, a human-scale portrait of a small town in Japan’s nuclear exclusion zone, was shown at dozens of festivals and won the grand prize at DOK Leipzig. It had a cinematic release in over eighty cities in Germany and Austria. His first feature film, The Irrational Remains, premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won numerous international awards. His earlier film and theater work has been presented at venues such as the Locarno Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and at the Viennale. Trimpop has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University, and Boston University. From 2014 to 2017 he was a fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. In 2019 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is currently assistant professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago in the Department for Film, Video, New Media, and Animation, where he is working on a new feature film.