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Dutchman’s Photographs

Dutchman’s Photographs

Oranda-jin no shashin

Isao Kota | Japan | 1974 | 7' |

| IFFR 2019

A series on the movement of walking barefoot through the ocean waves, produced using several hundred photographs. Like simply arranging playing cards on top of a table, the display of these photographs in rapid succession according to a rule can be considered a ‘moving puzzle’. (Image Forum)

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