Aug 22nd (Sat) 10:00～ @JMS ASTER PLAZA Medium Hall
This special program is dedicated to director Ryo Orikasa, who served as a member of the HAS 2026 Competition Selection Committee. Through film screenings and a talk session, the program explores the unique appeal of his animated works centered on letters, language, and words.
Guest: Ryo Orikasa
Adapted from Oscar Wilde's novel "The Happy Prince". Standing between watching and reading through this film, which is a cinema using text or a text as a cinema.
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 is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem.
Cy Twombly, Roland Barthes, what are they doing? This is a journal about seductions and sufferings of the text.
Movie for Tamaki ROY’s "Koto no Shidai". "Words turn into music / And it returns to sound, then melts in time and place / Time and place, which spin the story"
A video based on the poem of the same name from Sakutaro Hagiwara's "Howling at the Moon".
Directed by Japanese filmmaker Ryo Orikasa, the animated short Miserable Miracle was inspired by Henri Michaux’s book of poetry and drawings of the same name, about his experiences with mescaline. The film explores the limits of language and perception, creating connections between sound, meaning, shapes and movement.
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, Ryo Orikasa’s hypnotic animated short “The Graffiti” brings to life a prose poem by Makoto Takayanagi, read here by the poet himself.
Born in Ibaraki, Japan, 1986. Graduated from Ibaraki University, College of Education, 2009. Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate school of Film and New Media, Department of Animation, 2011. Awarded the Fellowship of Overseas Study Programme for Upcoming Artists (La Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal, Canada) by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japanese Government, 2015-2016. "Datum Point" (2015) based on a poem by Japanese poet Yoshiro Ishihara, 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. "Miserable Miracle" (2023) inspired by Henri Michaux's book of poetry and drawings of the same name, was co-produced by Miyu Productions (France), the National Film Board of Canada (Canada) and NEW DEER (Japan), winning the Grand Prize for Short Animation at the Ottawa International Animation Festival 2023. In 2025, as the second installment of the Yanai Initiative's "Bungaku Bideo" project, the film "The Graffiti" (2025), based on the poem of Makoto Takayanagi, was completed and won the Off-Limits award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2025, the Best Narrative Short Award, Ottawa International Animation Festival 2025.