Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2011

This ruminative, conceptual documentary by Danish director Michael Madsen on storing nuclear waste is essentially a string of questions; appropriately so, considering the mind-boggling, physical, moral and philosophical conundra it addresses. How do you store tons (250,000 so far) of radioactive material that will remain lethal for 100,000 years? If you bury it, do you post warnings at the site? How? Or do you hide it from civilizations we can’t even imagine long after ours is forgotten? How do you remind future generations to forget about it? Need I say that current events have made the matter especially relevant?