ORIKASA Ryo / 2016 / digital / color / 7min.
poem: ISHIHARA Yoshiro / music: OWADA Shun
　
The title calls to mind discrepancies in Japanese “datum points” caused by the Kanto and Eastern Japan earthquake disasters, but this work’s motif is Ishihara Yoshiro’s poem “Datum Point.” With the filmmaker’s own fingertips (?) he plows and prods the entirety of a vast land of clay. From shapeless images like waves that come and go, one by one the poet’s words are unspooled and vanish. A peaceful and powerful animated work.
　

ORIKASA Ryo

Born in Ibaraki Prefecture in 1986. Studied at Ibaraki University’s Education Department, the Image Forum Institute of the Moving Image, and the Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. Has resided in Montreal since September 2015, as a participant in The Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan’s Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists. DATUM POINT won the Ofuji Noburo Award at the 70th Mainichi Film Awards. Completed NOTRE CHAMBRE in 2016.
　

Schedule

TOKYO：4/30 13:45, 5/3 13:45　E program
KYOTO：5/15 11:00　E program
FUKUOKA：6/4 13:50　E program
NAGOYA：6/24 14:00　E program