Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on July 2010

The aim of this film school-level documentary is to get you closer to the people who populate islands threatened by global warming, namely Tuvalu, Venice and the Arctic isle of Shishmaref. And that’s all fine. It’s hard to criticize noble ambitions, but this is a film column, and this self-indulgent, amateurish attempt by Tokyo’s Tomoko Kana lacks even an attempt at focus; features long takes that have nothing to do with the purported subject; and looks like someone’s vacation films. In fact, it scans more like a way to write off vacation trips to Tuvalu, Venice and the Arctic isle of Shishmaref.