Seback

Gōzō Yoshimasu is one of Japans leading poets still prolific into his ninth decade This film documents his 2019 performance of Se back a live poetry reading set against accompaniment from avantgarde rock group Kukan Gendai Blindfolded and wearing a facemask Yoshimasu plays audio recordings growls and rasps his way through a rendition of a poem and channels every ounce of his energy into drawing using a pane of glass as his canvas Kukan Gendai sculpt shapes of sound in response an entire universe thrown into sharp relief by an uncompromising contest between voice and music