Animation and video hybrid (12 minutes), 2013

Shiro Yagi is and experimental animated film that is inspired from the last sheet of existing music of the artist’s maternal grandfather, Sueo Mori. Mori was a poet, composer and high school teacher. The composition and poem was written in 1927. The film is set in a fictional “land of sleep”, where a mother and her two chidlren encounter the haunting music of their late grandfather. Narrated in the style of film telling, the story is part fact and fiction; and traces the imaginary in the place of the gaps and silences that are met in the process of recollection.

Produced with support from British Columbia Arts Council, Cineworks Artist in Residence program through City of Vancouver, and National Association of Japanese Canadians.

Available through distribution at Video Out Distribution