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The first Japanese director to win second prize at Zagreb International Animation Festival 2016
Datum Point
Ryo Orikasa/6:41/Japan/Experimental/2015
Yoshiro Ishihara (1915–1977), who burst upon the scene of Japanese modern poetry in the mid-1950s, is now remembered as a “poet of silence.” He said “A poem is an impulse to resist writing.” This film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.
Director : Ryo Orikasa
He was born in 1986 in Ibaraki, Japan. he studied Education at Ibaraki University, as well as Film at the Forum. After that, he completed his master's Degree in Film at Tokyo University of the Arts. Between September 2015 and August 2016, he lived in Montreal as a foreign trainee for emerging cultural arts.