Kimi Takesue is an experimental filmmaker. Her films have screened widely, including at Sundance Film Festival,[1] Locarno Festival,[citation needed] the Museum of Modern Art,[2] International Film Festival Rotterdam,[3] the Los Angeles Film Festival,[4] South by Southwest,[5] ICA London,[citation needed] Cinéma du Réel,[6] DMZ International Documentary Film Festival,[7] Krakow Film Festival,[8] Slamdance Film Festival,[9] Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai,[citation needed] and the Walker Art Center.[10] Her films have been broadcast on PBS, IFC, and the Sundance Channel. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship,[11] a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship,[12] and two NYFA fellowships.[13] She is associate professor at Rutgers University–Newark.[14]
Films edit
Onlookers edit
Onlookers (2023) is a feature-length meditative documentary inviting audiences to reflect on their own modes of tourism, while asking the looming existential questions: Why do we travel? What do we seek? The film won an Honorable Mention at the Slamdance Film Festival. Film Comment called the film “a wry and at times uproarious ethnographic work," and "revelatory".
95 and 6 to Go edit
95 and 6 to Go (2016) is a feature-length documentary about family, memory and loss, as the filmmaker visits her grandfather.[15][16] The film won the Prize for Best Feature Documentary at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific International Film Festival,[17] and was nominated for the 2017 European Doc Alliance Award.[18]
Where Are You Taking Me? edit
Where Are You Taking Me? (2010) is a feature-length experimental documentary that complicates the relationship between ethnographer and subject. The film depicts the artist's trip through Uganda in poetic glimpses of quotidian life. The New York Times called the film, "an unusual, visually rich visit to the nation."[19] Time Out and LA Weekly selected Where Are You Taking Me? as critics' picks. Variety called the film “beautifully meditative" and "an uplifting observational documentary that plays on seeing and being seen."[20]
Awards edit
Takesue has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[21] the Rockefeller Foundation, NYFA,[22] Kodak, the Center for Asian American Media, Yaddo[23] and the MacDowell Colony. Her films have been supported by grants from ITVS, Ford Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts, amongst others.
References edit
- ^ "2009 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SHORT FILM PROGRAM" (PDF). Sundance Film Festival. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-19. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "New Directors/New Films '09" (PDF). MoMA.
- ^ "Kimi Takesue". IFFR. 2015-09-04. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Radio, Southern California Public (2010-06-28). "Los Angeles Film Festival wraps". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Takesue short narrative film 'That Which Once Was' premieres at SXSW". SU News. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "ONLOOKERS • Cinéma du Réel". Cinéma du Réel. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "DMZ International Documentary Film Festival". DMZ International Documentary Film Festival. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Onlookers - Film of 62th KFF". Krakow Film Festival. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "2023 Slamdance Film Festival". slamdance2023.eventive.org. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Walker Art Center Presents Women with Vision 2006: Confronting Silence". walkerart.org. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Kimi Takesue". Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Kimi Takesue | The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage". www.pewcenterarts.org. Retrieved 2023-08-29.
- ^ "Directory of Artists' Fellows & Finalists". New York Foundation for the Arts: 2005 & 2010.
- ^ "Kimi Takesue | Rutgers SASN". sasn.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Ok, Katherine (2019-02-26). "'95 and 6 to Go' explores memory, love, loss". Brown Daily Herald. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "An Ageless Dance in '95 and 6 to Go'". PopMatters. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Award Winners". Visual Communications. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "Doc Alliance Selection Award 2017: 10th Anniversary Edition Presents Nominees | dafilms.com". dafilms.com. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ DeWitt, David (2012-03-01). "'Where Are You Taking Me,' Kimi Takesue's Arty Look at Uganda". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Weissberg, Jay (2010-02-16). "Where Are You Taking Me?". Variety. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Kimi Takesue". Retrieved 2019-03-23.
- ^ Directory of Artists' Fellows & Finalists. NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS.
- ^ "Filmmakers". Yaddo. 2016-09-11. Retrieved 2019-03-23.