HANABIRIUM [related image] ©Marutamaya Co., Ltd

A 360-degree Omnidirectional Video Experience

Fireworks, a major summer feature in Japan, can be viewed year-round in the same way as when one looks up at a starry sky. HANABIRIUM, the fireworks industry’s first-ever fulldome educational film, explains the history as well as the technology of H Japanese fireworks that has advanced over the past 400 years, since the Edo period. In this work, the story of fireworks unfolds through documentary video and CG animation, with a boy named Hibana as its central character. At the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2020, a special screening of this film, created for planetariums, will be held in an outdoor dome-shaped theater. Viewers will enjoy not only a display of Japan’s best-known aerial fireworks, but also the documentary I video hanabi-rium360®, a cutting-edge fireworks presentation designed for fulldomes in which 5,000 fireworks shoot up from all directions. It offers a completely new viewing experience in which viewers can watch the fireworks from directly below, where only professional pyrotechnicians are normally allowed for safety reasons. Come and learn the story of fireworks that can mark the moment with the fire of life that has developed over many generations.

HANABIRIUM

2019 / 25 min. / 4K dome master, 5.1ch surround sound

https://www.hanabirium.com

Intermission images: SHIMADA Sayaka

2020 / 20 min. / Silent

Doom lighting by Color Kinetics Japan Incorporated

Supported by: Ray Corporation

Date: 2020.2.7 Fri. – 2.23 Sun.［Closed 10 Mon., 17 Mon.］
10:00–20:00 (Closes at 18:00 on the final day)
Venue: Center Square of Yebisu Garden Place
Admission: Free

★→No screening on the last day 2/23 Sun.

◎HANABIRIUM (25 min.) and the specially produced Intermission images (20 min.) are screened alternately.

◎You can enter to the tent from entrance gate at any time.

◎Admission may be limited if there are too many visitors.

◎In case of severe weather, the exhibition may be suspended.