Episode 0 : Inspiring Space Experiences x Sugimoto Hiroshi - Sony STAR SPHERE

Episode 0 : "From Science to Fantasy"
We are currently confronted by global-scale challenges that cannot be solved with the existing state of science and technology, such as climate change, energy crises, and pandemics. Perhaps what we need to overcome these impasses is the power of fantasy to imagine the future without being burdened by conventional wisdom. The setting is the Enoura Observatory, an art center that was conceived to serve as a historic site thousands of years into the future. Contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto hosts dialogues with guests on the forthcoming changes to humanity that may be brought about by the space perspectives.

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Cast: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Takamitsu Yamamoto, Mari Hashimoto

Takamitsu Yamamoto
Writer, Game designer, and Professor of Philosophy at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is also the author of many books--Kioku no Dezain (Design of Memory), Maruginaria de tsukamaete (The Catcher in the Marginalia), Bungaku-mondai (F+f)+ (What is Literature?), Shin-no Mondai (Mind-Brain Problem, with Hiromitsu Yoshikawa) and more.

Mari Hashimoto
Japanese art writer, editor and curator and is currently  Deputy Director of Eisei Bunko, a private museum of the Hosokawa family art collection. She has authored several books including Bijutsu de Tadoru Nihon no Rekishi (Tracing Japanese History Through Art), Kyoto de Nihon Bijutsu wo Miru – Kyoto National Museum (A Look at Japanese art in Kyoto – Kyoto National Museum), Kawari Kabuto – Sengoku no Cool Design (Fancy Helmets – Cool Designs from the Warring States Period) and more.

■Director
Yuta Okamura

■Executive Producer
Yusuke Muraki（Sony Group Corporation）

■Producer
Yusuke Fukagawa（Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. / Be）

■Assistant Producer
Noriko Ninokata（Be）

■Camera
Hidemi Shinoda / Daichi Amano / Shiori Ito / Shinpei Hayakawa

■Sound
Manabu Otsuka

■Cast
Hiroshi Sugimoto / Takamitsu Yamamoto / Mari Hashimoto

■Special Thanks
Atsuko Koyanagi　Keiko Inamasu（Odawara Art Foundation）
Gen Aihara（Sugimoto Studio）

■Music
♪ Light Body　/　♪ Sky Luster（Keigo Tanaka ）
♪ Sasanami #1　/　 ♪ Sazanami #2（Akira Uchida）