{"id":1732,"date":"2016-10-07T23:43:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T23:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/?p=1732"},"modified":"2024-09-01T16:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T16:38:08","slug":"on-the-edge-experimental-shorts-oiaf-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwolfepr.com\/dev\/on-the-edge-experimental-shorts-oiaf-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Edge: Experimental Shorts at OIAF 2016 | ANIMATIONWorld"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ryo Orikasa’s ‘Datum Point.’<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

ANIMATIONWorld<\/em> \u2014 October 7, 2016
On the Edge: Experimental Shorts at OIAF 2016<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

All animation is experimental, right? Well, some projects push that experimentation more than others, and this year\u2019s 40th anniversary edition of the Ottawa International Film Festival had a fantastic lineup of experimental and abstract films that leapt off the screen to lodge themselves inside our minds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year\u2019s Award for Best Experimental or Abstract Animation went to 2015\u2019s Datum Point<\/em>, by Japan-born, Montreal-based filmmaker Ryo Orikasa, with the jury commenting, \u201cLoved the texture. The granularity of the sound and medium had a visceral quality. Poetic beauty and integration of text, texture and sound. It was mysterious. I don\u2019t know what it was…but I was moved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employing clay animation, the nearly seven-minute-long Datum Point<\/em> was a big hit with OIAF audiences as well, producing cheers and stomps after its screening on Opening Night, and generating much buzz among festival-goers in the days leading up to the awards. The project was inspired by Japanese modern poet Yoshiro Ishihara, who is now remembered as a \u201cpoet of silence,\u201d and once commented, \u201cA poem is an impulse to resist writing.\u201d According to Orikasa, this film is an attempt to seek out the landscape from his poem. The film is not yet available online, but you can watch Orikasa\u2019s 2015 short, Writings fly away<\/em>, on Vimeo. (Read full story\u2026<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n