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)