Botchan Literary Award ぼっちゃんぶんがくしょう
Edition 18 (2021)
Winners
6 peopleA short-short that layers cinema and nightfall, letting memory and imagination melt into each other.
Screenlight slowly illuminates a single memory.
A short-short that traces things delivered again and emotions that keep crossing paths, all in a light tempo.
Each redelivery changes the shape of feeling a little more.
A slightly unsettling short-short that turns bodily marks and memory into lingering atmosphere.
An indelible mark quietly draws the outline of the past closer.
A short-short that overlays family memory with the image of fossils, watching time accumulate in layers.
Something still moves deep inside the fossilized memory.
A short-short that uses humor to capture the wobble of not being able to settle on either side.
The feeling moves forward while the answer remains on hold.
A short-short that uses a single dislike as a starting point to lightly trace the gap between self-consciousness and the world.
The watermelon that cannot be eaten somehow defines the self most clearly.