Empire of Mirrors (2018)
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
Director: Bianca Charamsa
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Cornelia Waibel as Narrator |
| Editing | Knut Schmitz | Color Grading |
| Sound | Tim Stanzel | Music |
| Editing | Marcel Ozan Riedel | Editor |
| Crew | Jochen Voerste | Mixing Engineer |
| Production | Carmel Fuhg | Producer |
| Production | Ko Miklik | Production Director |
| Production | Antje Boehmert | Producer |
| Camera | Grischa Schmitz | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Bianca Charamsa | Director |
| Sound | Sven Klöpper | Sound |
| Crew | Sven Klöpper | Drone Operator |
