The Graffiti / Rakugaki / Grafit

 Ryo Orikasa (The Yanai Initiative at UCLA, Waseda University)
2025, Japan, USA, 12'33''

The moment the first gleam of sunlight trickled in gently stirring the folds of a shallow sleep – that was when the graffiti appeared . . . Installment #2 in the Bungaku Bideo series fusing Japanese literature and animation, this film brings to life a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi, read here by the poet himself.

V trenutku, ko je prvi sončni žarek proniknil skozi in nežno zganil gube plitkega spanca - takrat se je pojavil grafit ... Drugi del serije Bungaku Bideo, ki združuje japonsko literaturo in animacijo, vdahne življenje pesmi v prozi Makota Takayanagija, ki jo bere pesnik sam.

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Language: Japanese
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Technique: Object animation

Team

Script: Makoto Takayanagi (adaptation based on Takayanagi Makoto's poem Rakugaki, 1999)
Animation: Ryo Orikasa
Music: Masumi Takino

Ryo Orikasa

born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1986. Datum Point (2015) received several awards include the Ōfuji Noburō Award, The Mainichi Film Awards 2015, the Golden Zagreb Award, Animafest Zagreb 2016, the Best Experimental or Abstract Animation Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival 2016. Recent film, Misérable Miracle (2023), inspired by the work of Henri Michaux, was co-produced by Miyu Productions (France), the NFB (Canada) and New Deer (Japan).