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In the penultimate release for the KYOTO project, director Alan Algee offers Moving / Memory, a film featuring shodō artist and teacher Hiroshi Ueta discussing and demonstrating his relationship to the country’s calligraphic tradition, from its orthodox roots in 5th century Japan to his own avant-garde approach that began with instruction as a child from his mother Nobuyo Miyamoto. Over the course of the collaboration between Algee and VSCO’s 23.5 title, the KYOTO project has explored the city’s unique intersection between ancient and contemporary worlds, between ideas of cultural preservation and modernity. In Hiroshi Ueta’s artistry we find both a very literal example and an elegant expression of these ideas at work.