The “Bungaku Bideo” series is an innovative effort to bring literature and film together in a new way, and to introduce the work of phenomenal artists in both forms to new audiences worldwide.
The Yanai Initiative is thrilled to announce that The Graffiti received the Animation Mentor Award for Best Narrative Short in the Official Competition-Narrative Short Animation Category at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
*Jury Comment*
This film immediately transported us into a story about the disintegration of language. It employs multiple techniques in the representation of a city, which becomes language and then loses it. It left us with the question – what is consciousness without language?
