OGINO, Shigeji

荻野茂二, 1899-1991

Film: Rhythm

• pioneer experimental filmmaker / animator
• started making films in the late 1920s with a Pathé Baby
• reputed to have made over 400 "small-gauge" films between the 1920s and 1976
• post-WWII, he set up the Ogino 8mm Film School
• experimented with 8mm, 9.5mm and 16mm film stock
• experimented with tinting and colouring film stock
• used a wide variety of film stocks including Kodachrome and Sakura Color Film
• made home movies, travelogues, experimental films, animation
• won many awards both at home and abroad throughout his career including the First International Film Contest in Budapest in 1935. This event was organised by the Hungarian Small-Gauge Film Association

References:

• NFC Ogino Screening Programme (JP)
• interview with Akira Tochigi in the Montreal Mirror re: Cinémathèque québécoise's "Hommage à Shigeji Ogino" screening programme
• Propagate/An Expression (DE), article by Stefan Drößler in Film ist Kultur
• NFC Film Archive (JP/EN)