Open Your Eyes

Yui­chi Watana­be | JP 2025 | 15′ | Spiel­film | Japa­nisch mit engl. UT | Deutschland-Premiere
Vir­tu­al Reality

Eine tie­fe Kluft trennt Tokio vom gesperr­ten Kata­stro­phen­ge­biet in Fuku­shi­ma. Zu den Olym­pi­schen Spie­len lie­fen par­al­lel zum offi­zi­el­len Fackel­lauf »Ech­te Fackel­trä­ger« zwi­schen die­sen bei­den Wel­ten hin und her, mit einer Mischung aus Hoff­nung und Mahnung.

Bio­gra­phie
Yui­chi Watana­be is a film­ma­ker who found joy in crea­ting pro­jects that tran­s­cend gen­res such as media, social acti­vism, report­ing, and art. His work cen­ters on bidi­rec­tion­al rela­ti­onships – bet­ween sup­port­er and sup­port­ed in social move­ments, and bet­ween the one who films and the one being film­ed – chal­len­ging tra­di­tio­nal one-way dynamics.

  • Dancing-in-front-of-non-residential-area2
  • In-front-of-the-meltdown-nuclear-power-plant
  • In-front-of-the-stadium-on-the-opening-ceremony-day

Regie: Yui­chi Watanabe
Bild­ge­stal­tung: Yui­chi Watana­be, Kazu­y­u­ki Ito
Mon­ta­ge: Yui­chi Watanabe
Musik: Atsu­shi Kadowaki

Screenings/Preise
The Mel­bourne Docu­men­ta­ry Film Fes­ti­val: Best VR / Inter­ac­ti­ve Docu­men­ta­ry Winner
FIVARS — Fes­ti­val of Inter­na­tio­nal Vir­tu­al Aug­men­ted Rea­li­ty Sto­ries: Offi­ci­al Selection

Fil­mo­gra­phie
2025 Open Your Eyes
2018 Seven Years After the Dis­as­ter: What Run­ning Reve­als (TV)
2011 »What Citi­zens Can Do Now« (pro­ject by a coll­ec­ti­ve of citizens)
2004 Mino­ri­high Town: Record of a Vanis­hed Town (Web Documentary)

Alle Fil­me in die­sem Programm

Any War Any Enemy 

Open Your Eyes 

Bodies Of Water 

Korst­mos

The Mir­ror