A dead photographer's sand dunes start moving—and talking back.
Working since before WW2, UEDA Shoji pierced through amateurism, Then, in his picture world he takes, cuts and rearranges photos through his own sensibility, which takes him to the new media that is Ga-nime, encouraged by his friend the actor SANO Shiro, born in the same prefecture. The pictures used for this exhibition are not only from his most famous “Dune Mode” series, but also of many pre/post-war pictures of his birthplace, streetcars running in Tokyo, and traditional scene of Japan, through which a whole culture appears.
Cinematography
Ueda's compositions breathe with impossible geometry.
Direction
Sano's 'Ga-nime' technique makes stillness cinematic.
Director
Shiro Sano
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ueda's 'Dune Mode' made the Tottori sand dunes internationally famous, transforming a barren landscape into high fashion's favorite backdrop throughout the 1980s.
Ga-nime (画ニメ) was Sano's coined term for this hybrid form—literally 'picture-anime'—attempting to legitimize still-image animation as distinct from both manga and traditional anime.
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