Lockhart's "Goshogaoka"

Lockhart’s “Goshogaoka” is an interesting take on mixed media. This film is a choreographed Japanese girls’ basketball practice that speaks to the synthesis between theatrical dance and film study. Lockhart sets her camera up at half court directly in front of the stage that adorns the end of the court. The fact that the whole film is shot in front of a stage gives it a performance aspect as if this practice was being done specifically for us to watch. The more and more I though about this film, the more I realized the voyeurism that backs the whole concept. Watching a basketball practice is something someone does on the sidelines, trying not to be a distraction to the players. Since the audience is an auditorium of people and the film is shot in front of a stage it seems like this was a practice for a routine to be performed on that stage. I would have enjoyed this film quite a bit more had it been an instillation in a gallery accompanied by film stills that Lockhart had showed us. The stills seem like a much more thoughtfully composed way of conveying movement in a Brechtian style; capturing action at its most active.