The combined series attempt to reconstruct, through image and object, the lost Manchurian telepathic feature film once known as The Lost Tribes.

The imagined movie was produced throughout the 1930s at the modern film studio built in the brand-new colonial city of Shinkyo, capital of the nation of Manchuria, created by the Japanese in the Northeast of China. The movie was part of an effort by Japanese film narrators (the Katsuben) to make silent sound films for the new country.

The reconstruction, in the mode of art brut, takes place from the first person point of view of a European narrator tracing one and then many lives backwards along paths not taken, through bifurcating personalities that live again via the reconstruction of the lost colonial construction, telling The Lost Tribes as if it were their own lives.

Produced with the assistance of the US National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council for the Arts, and Tokyo University.