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Shot at a girl’s junior high school near Tokyo, Sharon Lockhart’s Goshogaoka is a basketball flick, but it’s hardly She’s Got Game. The non-narrative film can be seen as an account of how an assortment of individuals becomes that most important of Japanese entities, the group. Yet Lockhart’s interest is not just ethnographic. The movement of the players also has an element of lyrical abstraction, and Lockhartan L.A. artist and photographerframes her images skillfully enough. The director will discuss the film, which at least one Sundance Film Festival commentator found “mesmerizing,” at both screenings. At 8 p.m. tonight and Friday at the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden’s Ring Auditorium, 7th & Independence Ave. SW. Free. (202) 357-2700. (MJ)