Goshogaoka

  • 63'
  • USA
  • 1996
Filmed in a secondary school in suburban Japan, Goshoagaoko at first seems to be about the exercise routines and drills of a girls' basketball team. The film consists of six ten minute takes, shot with a fixed camera at court level, in which the various cadences of chanting voices and bodily movements disgress into distinct studies. Taken together they form a subtle and multilayered social portrait, in which documentary values soon become inseparable from aesthetic ones. And as there are no games, scrimmages, or barking coaches here, just the girls and their routines, the image is not so much one of contest and gamesmanship but one of individualization within a scene of group cooperation. Shy girls, a shy camera and a strange kind of social belonging.
Director
Sharon Lockhart
Premiere
European premiere
Country of production
USA
Year
1996
Festival Edition
IFFR 1998
Length
63'
Medium
16mm
Producer
Sharon Lockhart
Sales
Sharon Lockhart
Screenplay
Sharon Lockhart
Director
Sharon Lockhart
Premiere
European premiere
Country of production
USA
Year
1996
Festival Edition
IFFR 1998
Length
63'
Medium
16mm
Producer
Sharon Lockhart
Sales
Sharon Lockhart
Screenplay
Sharon Lockhart