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16’34”


“Time is neither linear, nor heaped in a pyramidal hierarchy....”


Communing with a futurism now past, this short documentary revisits two “Metabolist” architecture projects: Nakagin Capsule Tower (1972) in Tokyo (demolished 2022), and Capsule House K (1973; extant), Nagano Prefecture.

Narration by architect-politican Kisho Kurokawa’s son Mikio, Nakagin project manager Nobuo Abe, and preservationist Tatsuyuki Maeda. Filmed in Japan before the pandemic, produced in Montréal. 2024.

This project was generously supported by a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. 


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Press Kit -> EN | 日本語


Christopher Blackmore — Director, Producer
Milo  Reinhardt — Post-Production,  Editing
Josh Frank — Editing

Yuji Moriwaki — Cinematography
Megumi Furihata, Daniel González,
Akio Kunisawa, Nami Kunisawa — Translation
With    Nobuo Abe, Mikio Kurokawa, Maeda Tatsuyuki
Special Thanks    James Goddard, Lena Sasakura Shockley