Synopsis

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.

Ryo Orikasa

Ryo Orikasa was born in 1986 in Ibaraki, Japan. His film Datum Point (2015) received several awards, including the Ōfuji Noburō Award, The Mainichi Film Awards 2015, the Golden Zagreb Award at Animafest Zagreb 2016, and the Best Experimental or Abstract Animation Award at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2016. His recent film, Misérable Miracle (2023) was inspired by the work of Henri Michaux.