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Origin Work

Shōgun

Pathways converging on Shōgun

Ordered stops 8 Across 3 mediums

The traced route

8 stops · ordered to follow

Film

3 stops

Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray · 1955

Anchored in the pathway 'The Slow Erosion of Rural Innocence', linked via the thread of 'Daily ritual under coming storm'.

The Salt of the Earth

Wim Wenders · 2014

Anchored in the pathway 'The Witness Who Carries the Wound', linked via the thread of 'The outsider rewritten by attention'.

Argentina · Film

The Hour of the Furnaces

Fernando Solanas · 1968

Anchored in the pathway 'The Camera as Weapon Against Empire', linked via the thread of 'Sails arriving with hidden ledgers'.

Literature

2 stops

Russia · Literature

Vladimir Nabokov · 1951

Anchored in the pathway 'The Lepidopterist of Lost Time', linked via the thread of 'exile as untranslatable code'.

Malaysia · Literature

The Garden of Evening Mists

Tan Twan Eng · 2011

Anchored in the pathway 'The Garden Where Memory Is Buried', linked via the thread of 'Aesthetic discipline as diplomacy'.

Music

3 stops

Talking Timbuktu

Ali Farka Touré & Ry Cooder · 1994

Anchored in the pathway 'The Desert Sings Across Oceans', linked via the thread of 'Translation as patient ceremony'.

Fela Kuti · 1976

Anchored in the pathway 'The Drumbeat That Refuses the Boot', linked via the thread of 'Bodies that bow before they think'.

Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

Ali Farka Touré · 2005

Anchored in the pathway 'The River That Remembers Its Source', linked via the thread of 'language as survival ritual'.