"A poetic and thought-provoking exploration of how memory, faith and cultural identity can endure even when the physical world they belong to is threatened with disappearance."
-------- Review from Future Art & Design Award
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Project description
Nai no Do is a narrative film situated on the coastline of Kochi, Japan, an area threatened by the predicted Nankai Trough earthquake and tsunami. Set in 2056, the film imagines a pilgrimage that develops from the walks of the Guardians, researchers who have been recording Kochi’s landscapes, objects, and living archives since 2026, before they risk becoming future debris.
Narrated by future pilgrims, the film moves through existing landscapes and imagined architectural interventions. It combines 3D Gaussian Splatting created from landscapes recorded by the artist in Kochi with digitally constructed environments representing places that do not yet exist.
Through this unstable reconstruction of a landscape that may one day disappear, Nai no Do explores how memory is recorded and carried across human and geological timescales, and how one community might learn to live with an uncertain future.