Ana Vaz Discusses the Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, the Work of Yoko Hayasuke and Preferring to Be a Mother Rather than a Zombie

'Hanabi' ('Fire Flower') premieres in Locarno's Concorso Cineasti del Presente section

“When you begin again, you repeat everything,” reflects experimental filmmaker Ana Vaz , thinking of her home country Brazil and the setting of her new feature, “ Hanabi ,” in Japan . “There’s a normalization of the state of catastrophe and disaster necessary for the system to perpetrate itself. It needs catastrophe in order to exist.”