ナイトクルージング　NIGHT CRUISING

視覚がなく、光すら感じたことのない全盲の加藤秀幸は、ある日映画を作ることを決める。加藤は、映画制作におけるさまざまな過程を通して、顔や色の実体、2Dで表現することなど、視覚から見た世界を知っていく。また、加藤と共に製作する見えるスタッフも、加藤を通して視覚のない世界を垣間見る。見えない加藤と見えるスタッフ、それぞれが互いの頭の中にある“イメージ”を想像しながら、映画がつくられていく。
加藤の監督する短編映画は、近未来の宇宙の小惑星を舞台にした、生まれながらに全盲の男と見える相棒が“ゴースト”と呼ばれる存在を追うSFアクション映画。それはまるで、映画制作の現場で浮かび上がる、「見える／見えない世界」の間に漂う何かとも重なる。
ドキュメントとフィクション、二つの世界に漂う“ゴースト”を、捕らえることはできるのか。

NIGHT CRUISING follows congenitally blind musician Hideyuki Kato as he pursues the realization of an expansive sci-fi short called GHOST VISION, a film within its own documentary film. The main subject, Kato Hideyuki, has never seen light but loves films. One day he decided to make his own film and starts to re-examine fundamental concepts such as color, the face, and two-dimensional expression etc. Working with a film production team, artists, and wide range of collaborators—including color experts, facial roboticists, hair stylists, voice actors, fight choreographers and VFX engineers—Kato directs the execution of his story about a non-sighted fighter and a telepath searching for a mysterious “ghost” in a future world. Through the challenges that Kato faces in filmmaking, he encounters the perspectives of seeing people. At the same time, the seeing staff glimpse the world without sight. Kato’s pursuit becomes a deep interrogation of how sensory environments are perceived and rendered, offering new ways for viewers to think through their own assumptions about cinema and imagination.
The process of Kato’s filmmaking enables viewers to witness something that lies in between seeing and non-seeing world, resembling the “ghost” that appears in his fiction film. Will we be able to capture the “ghost” that is drifting between us?