Empire of Mirrors

Synopsis

Bianca Charamsa made her way to Japan during this year's cherry blossom season to get to grips with the country's character through conversations with some of its artists. Although two violent atomic catastrophes - the bombing of Hiroshima and the Fukushima nuclear disaster - have shaken and shaped modern-day Japan, the artist Takahiro Iwasaki believes that memory of 6th and 9th August 1945 is slowly fading, despite all the folded cranes left by visitors to the memorial sites. Natural catastrophes like sea- and earthquakes also rock Japan time and time again; perhaps this explains why the Japanese aesthetic Wabi Sabi incorporates both beauty and decay...much like the beauty of the cherry blossom as it withers during the annual festival of Hanami

Main Cast

Cornelia Waibel

Narrator

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Editing	Color Grading	Knut Schmitz
	Editor	Marcel Ozan Riedel
Sound	Music	Tim Stanzel
	Sound	Sven Klöpper
Crew	Mixing Engineer	Jochen Voerste
	Drone Operator	Sven Klöpper
Production	Producer	Carmel Fuhg Antje Boehmert
	Production Director	Ko Miklik
Camera	Camera Operator	Grischa Schmitz
Directing	Director	Bianca Charamsa
Department	Role	Name

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