Born in 1939, Gozo Yoshimasu is a highly acclaimed poet, filmmaker, and photographer living in Tokyo, Japan. Yoshimasu has published over thirty books of poetry, several of which have been translated in several languages. He has extended his poetry into other forms of artistic expression— calligraphy, photography, and film. All of these films were shot and edited in-camera by Yoshimasu, who captures landscapes and translates them into a delicate texture of interconnected images. This is the first time Yoshimasu has presented his films in the US.
An Abandoned Swimming Pool, Tateshina (2006, 7 minutes, video)
Eiffel Tower, Twilight (2006, 6 minutes, video)
Watts Towers: The Towers of Shells or Song for Disappearing Sea (2011, 10 minutes, video)
Water’s Edge of America, Concord (2011, 7 minutes, video)
Plus other new works, and a performance by the filmmaker. Total running time: ca. 60 minutes.
