A director turns his camera inward and refuses to look away. Wedding photographs, window views, travel moments, the mundane architecture of a life becomes the entire point, shot frame-by-frame into something that feels like memory itself, unstable and precious. Photodiary 87 moves at the speed of confession, patient enough to let you sit with small things until they become everything.
Takashi Ito points his camera at moments from his own everyday life and assembles them into a filmed diary meant to read like a confession of what he feels. The material is ordinary: a relative's wedding, the view from a window of his house, keepsake photos from his trips. Instead of showing them as simple records, he photographs them one frame at a time and applies a variety of clever methods to express the emotions tied to them. The result is a film made entirely from personal images.