0001 00:00:40:04 00:00:42:01 How closely can one watch? 0002 00:00:42:04 00:00:44:06 And what is there to be seen? 0003 00:00:45:14 00:00:48:14 The man with the candle has purple nails. 0004 00:00:50:10 00:00:51:20 Is this a rock? 0005 00:00:53:05 00:00:54:15 Or maybe buttocks? 0006 00:00:55:20 00:00:58:15 Is this paradise? 0007 00:00:58:18 00:01:01:20 In this ear, someone is lying on the beach. 0008 00:01:03:07 00:01:05:17 Does the corpse travel by boat? 0009 00:01:06:22 00:01:09:11 In the distance, three horsemen. 0010 00:02:38:24 00:02:43:01 Yokoo Tadanori's paintings take you to another world. 0011 00:02:44:01 00:02:48:15 Do they tell one story, or does one work reveal many stories? 0012 00:02:50:12 00:02:54:12 In an attempt to fathom this, I try and identify with his work. 0013 00:02:55:12 00:02:59:14 This is the closest I can get to this artist whom I so greatly admire. 0014 00:04:40:21 00:04:43:21 I'm back in the 1930s or 40s. 0015 00:04:44:24 00:04:47:08 I light my way with the candle. 0016 00:04:49:06 00:04:51:15 I notice a corpse between the rocks. 0017 00:04:51:18 00:04:54:07 Or were we looking for this corpse all along? 0018 00:04:55:10 00:04:58:12 As the man with the candle, I'm all suited up. 0019 00:04:58:15 00:05:01:00 At the back, I'm wearing tails. 0020 00:05:01:03 00:05:03:21 In the middle, I'm a labourer. 0021 00:05:06:03 00:05:08:09 Our lives are obviously different. 0022 00:05:08:12 00:05:11:10 In wealth, class, and god knows what else. 0023 00:05:12:21 00:05:16:20 The text on the rock reads: 'Death makes everyone equal'. 0024 00:05:16:23 00:05:21:19 It's upside down, and only I, as the dead man in a simple shirt, can read it. 0025 00:05:24:05 00:05:28:07 Death is awaiting us, and doesn't smell pleasant, that's for sure. 0026 00:05:28:10 00:05:33:13 This discovery makes us all, however different, equal for a moment, 0027 00:05:34:05 00:05:36:15 Above us, clouds are gathering. 0028 00:05:37:15 00:05:41:08 The souls of the dead are flying away, like birds they travel to other places. 0029 00:08:11:24 00:08:16:04 I look at the world with the innocence of a newborn baby. 0030 00:08:17:15 00:08:20:17 This is a boys' book. There's a war going on. 0031 00:08:20:20 00:08:25:17 We're still in primary school, wearing the classic uniform. 0032 00:08:25:20 00:08:27:09 A dog is watching over us. 0033 00:08:27:12 00:08:30:06 Planes are raging around us. 0034 00:08:30:09 00:08:32:23 We're holding each other, anxiously. 0035 00:08:57:03 00:09:00:02 It's a monster we've created. 0036 00:09:00:05 00:09:04:02 Full of hope, we look at Tarzan attacking it. 0037 00:09:04:05 00:09:06:06 I cut the beast with my knife. 0038 00:09:06:09 00:09:09:24 It is losing blood, and yet it seems to be winning. 0039 00:09:11:01 00:09:15:07 It is swallowing everything and everyone in a whirling vortex. 0040 00:09:15:10 00:09:17:14 A maelstrom of violence. 0041 00:09:17:17 00:09:19:02 I'm dying. 0042 00:09:22:20 00:09:24:11 But it doesn't end there. 0043 00:09:24:14 00:09:27:14 A boat will carry me further, into the light. 0044 00:09:27:17 00:09:30:10 And the vortex seems to calm down. 0045 00:09:35:16 00:09:38:22 My friends and I see three horsemen. 0046 00:09:39:00 00:09:40:10 Is this us? 0047 00:09:48:13 00:09:51:13 We seem to be heading to some paradise. 0048 00:10:12:20 00:10:14:22 I've been washed ashore. 0049 00:10:15:00 00:10:18:09 It feels warm, and everything is all right. 0050 00:10:18:12 00:10:19:22