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Papers

Papers is a 3-minute animated short film made by Yoshinao Satoh from what must be thousands of newspaper scans. The animation set to Different Trains by Steve Reich & Kronos Quartet. I love this style of collage animation.

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Kevin Miller

This is presumably Japanese 101 stuff, but I looked up the marks while watching:

  • The two-stroke "roof" character near the beginning is hito, "person" or "human"
  • The two-character word 戦争 is "war"
  • Enclosing a character in a square box is an emphasis à la bold
  • Enclosing a character in those fancy brackets is a quotation
  • The line on top of a character is a different type of emphasis à la underlining

Correct me if I'm wrong, of course.

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