Self and Others
2001 · 53 MIN · IMDB 7.5 · 47 VOTES · DIR. Makoto Satō
Overview
In 1983, photographer Gocho Shigeo met an early death at the young age of 36. The view we see reflected in Gocho’s photographic images has become more profound over time since his death and has struck a chord in people’s hearts. While focusing on Gocho’s collection of photographs Self and Others, the film also visits places associated with him, creating a collage with the manuscripts, letters, photographs and voice recordings remaining in an attempt to capture “one more gesture”—a theme pursued by Gocho through photographic expression. This film is neither a critical biography nor a monograph on the photographer. Rather, we are offered a new perception. As if mesmerized, the photographs Gocho left behind captivate us in their gaze.
Dialogue Timeline — 220 lines
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00:00:16 Shigeo Gocho was a photographer.
00:03:52 Though Shigeo eluded death he was left deformed.
00:08:36 The photographer Kiyoji Otsuji, got him interested in photography.
00:09:43 "So it's unlikely that I could be anyone's apprentice."
00:10:56 "I haven't written to Mother. Give my love to her."
00:14:19 "Next year there will be the US treaty and the Expo 70."
00:15:48 "I don't know if you can see what I intend to capture."
00:17:05 "We don't venture because there are roads."
00:18:23 "All I want is to make books of my photographs. Nothing else."
00:21:24 Then I started to develop a strange relationship with a round mirror
00:22:23 As if I was on a virtual merry-go-round.
00:29:52 Shortly after she sent me this letter
00:30:53 In the middle of her adolescence -
00:32:08 "Persons"
00:33:38 A - I - U - E - O.
00:35:24 "Thanks for your letter and everything else."
00:37:01 "When he visited me in September there was something different about him."
00:37:59 "I ended up comforting him"
00:39:03 "Shigeo Gocho."
00:40:55 There are things I'd rather forget.
00:42:34 "I m settling into the new apartment, it's better than the last one."
00:43:37 "I'm amazed that I'm still alive."
00:50:50 Do - Re - Mi - Fa - So - La - Ti - Do.
196:05:01 Tokyo despite his family's concerns.