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Datum Point

  • January 2015
  • 7mins

  • Animation
  • Directed by

    Ryo Orikasa,

    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.