Kimi Takesue
Onlookers: Opens in NYC at Metrograph: Feb. 16-22, 2024!
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Director Kimi Takesue Looks Back on Her Career with Criterion Channel Retrospective
Director Kimi Takesue Looks Back on Her Career with Criterion Channel Retrospective
The visually mesmerizing and deeply reflective films of Kimi Takesue traverse genres—including documentary, fiction, and experimental forms—to explore the charged spaces between observer and observed. Often centered on the act of travel, Takesue’s work follows tourists and locals as they navigate shared yet unequal terrain. In evocative shorts and acclaimed features like Where Are You Taking Me?, 95 and 6 to Go, and Onlookers.
Directed by Kimi Takesue - The Criterion Channel
Directed by Kimi Takesue - The Criterion Channel
The visually mesmerizing and deeply reflective films of Kimi Takesue traverse genres—including documentary, fiction, and experimental forms—to explore the charged spaces between observer and observed. Often centered on the act of travel, Takesue’s work follows tourists and locals as they navigate...
Stream Onlookers: Tricycle Film Club until Aug. 31, 2025!
Stream Onlookers: Tricycle Film Club until Aug. 31, 2025!
The film "Onlookers" offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers.
'Onlookers' Film Review: Selfies and Saffron in Modern Laos
'Onlookers' Film Review: Selfies and Saffron in Modern Laos
Kimi Takesue's latest documentary travels to Laos and delves into cross-cultural encounters.
Onlookers Records the Lure of the Tourist Gaze
Onlookers Records the Lure of the Tourist Gaze
Kimi Takesue’s new documentary nudges us to consider whether we in the audience differ all that much from the tourists whipping out their iPhones.
Onlookers Review- Screenslate
Onlookers Review- Screenslate
In Kimi Takesue’s Onlookers (2023), steady compositions invoke the theatrical stage by establishing fixed dimensions within which people and objects interact with the audience in direct and spontaneous ways. In a series of still shots, Takesue documents several touristy areas in Laos. These shots make the mostly white western tourists their focus while local Laotians preparing food, activities, and other attractions for them, remain in the periphery.
Double Exposure: Phạm Thiên Ân and Kimi Takesue - Journal - Metrograph
Double Exposure: Phạm Thiên Ân and Kimi Takesue - Journal - Metrograph
Talent Showcase: Filmmaker Kimi Takesue on Travel, Capturing Laos For Her DIY Doc Onlookers | Above the Line
Talent Showcase: Filmmaker Kimi Takesue on Travel, Capturing Laos For Her DIY Doc Onlookers | Above the Line
Every once in awhile here at Above the Line, we're going to break away from talking to the filmmakers behind the biggest studio releases of the...
TIX now on SALE for Opening Weekend of ONLOOKERS at Metrograph: Feb. 16-18
TIX now on SALE for Opening Weekend of ONLOOKERS at Metrograph: Feb. 16-18
CRITERION features the new poster and clip from ONLOOKERS
CRITERION features the new poster and clip from ONLOOKERS
Metrograph will screen Kimi Takesue’s study of tourism in Laos and stream her two previous features as well.
FILM COMMENT: Dig for Fire: Prismatic Ground 2023
FILM COMMENT: Dig for Fire: Prismatic Ground 2023
15 Films to Catch During Prismatic Ground 2023 | Filmmaker Magazine
15 Films to Catch During Prismatic Ground 2023 | Filmmaker Magazine
Prismatic Ground, the New York-based film festival that showcases experimental documentary and avant-garde works, kicks off this week. Spanning five days and six theaters, the festival will run from…
ONLOOKERS: Exclusive Interview with Kimi Takesue (Cinema Daily
ONLOOKERS: Exclusive Interview with Kimi Takesue (Cinema Daily
Synopsis : ONLOOKERS offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country’s dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. Drawn...
Prismatic Ground Reveals 2023 Lineup, Featuring Films From Tsai Ming-Liang, Kimi Takesue and More | Filmmaker Magazine
Prismatic Ground Reveals 2023 Lineup, Featuring Films From Tsai Ming-Liang, Kimi Takesue and More | Filmmaker Magazine
New York City Premiere: Prismatic Ground at BAM- Thurs. May 4th/7pm
New York City Premiere: Prismatic Ground at BAM- Thurs. May 4th/7pm
“We Need Work That is Impossible to Describe”: Kimi Takesue on Onlookers | Filmmaker Magazine
“We Need Work That is Impossible to Describe”: Kimi Takesue on Onlookers | Filmmaker Magazine
When I first met Kimi Takesue, I saw a flash of recognition from her that my eyes reflected. It was clear we understood something very specific about each other—being biracial is, as she said…
CINEMA DU REEL 2023 – Onlookers de Kimi Takesue - EastAsia
CINEMA DU REEL 2023 – Onlookers de Kimi Takesue - EastAsia
Autres pays - Asie CINEMA DU REEL 2023 – Onlookers de Kimi Takesue EastAsia
The paradox of travel | Modern Times Review
The paradox of travel | Modern Times Review
TOURISM: In the age of over-tourism, Onlookers asks what it is we seek when we travel?
International Premiere: Cinéma du Réel at the Pompidou Center-In competition
International Premiere: Cinéma du Réel at the Pompidou Center-In competition
Read At Joe's: Onlookers Review
Read At Joe's: Onlookers Review
ONLOOKERS is a beautifully visual observation on the tourism industry. The documentary’s underlying message of why we travel is wholly universal.
The Wrap: Sundance Portraits
The Wrap: Sundance Portraits
This Week in New York: SLAMDANCE: ONLOOKERS
This Week in New York: SLAMDANCE: ONLOOKERS
Windows On World: Onlookers (Kimi Takesue, 2023)
Windows On World: Onlookers (Kimi Takesue, 2023)
Asian Movie Pulse Review: Onlookers (2022) by Kimi Takesue
Asian Movie Pulse Review: Onlookers (2022) by Kimi Takesue
Moveable Interview: Kimi Takesue on the Wandering Eye in "Onlookers"
Moveable Interview: Kimi Takesue on the Wandering Eye in "Onlookers"
Talkhouse Interview: Seeing and Seeking with Kimi Takesue
Talkhouse Interview: Seeing and Seeking with Kimi Takesue
ONLOOKERS Film
ONLOOKERS Film
Kimi Takesue Official Website
Kimi Takesue Official Website
95 AND 6 TO GO film
95 AND 6 TO GO film
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