Looking for Jiro
- TT Takemoto |
- 2011 |
- 6 minutes |
- B&W |
- SOUND
Rental Format(s): Digital File / LEASE RIGHTS
A tribute to Jiro Onuma, a gay Japanese American incarcerated during WWII. This queer fantasy features a mash up of drag king performance, US propaganda footage, muscle building, and homoerotic bread making.
Collections:
Asian Art Museum
Selected Exhibitions:
Vargas Museum, Philippines
Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles
SOMarts
The Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco
Oakland Museum of California
Asian Art Museum
Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Documenta 15
Peabody Essex Museum
Selected Screenings and Awards
Jury Award: Best Experimental Film, Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
MIX NYC: 24th New York Queer Experimental Film Festival
Homoscope International Queer Experimental Film, Video & Arts, Austin
30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Fusion 2012: Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival
50th Ann Arbor Film Festival
30th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
8th Queer Women of Color Film Festival
28th Boston LGBT Film Festival
CMG Short Film Festival
Frameline 36: San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival
MIX Milan: Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Japan Foundation, Mami Art Center, Hanoi
Green Papaya Art Projects, Quezon City, Philippines
Queer Week Film Festival, Paris
MIX Mexico, 17th Sexual Diversity Film/Video Festival, Mexico City
SPIRIT: Queer Asian American Activism, Brava Theater, San Francisco
Rio Gay Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro
Centre for Contemporary Arts, Digital Desperados, Glasgow
Transcreen Film Festival, Amsterdam
DePaul University
Hamburg International Queer Film Festival
Marseille Underground Film & Music Festival
Paris College of Art
Treize Galerie, Paris
Garage MU, Paris