Person
TT Takemoto
Directing
Biography
TT Takemoto is a queer Japanese American filmmaker and artist exploring Asian American history, sexuality, and identity. Their experimental films delve into hidden dimensions of same-sex intimacy and trauma that exist within Asian and Asian American archives. Takemoto interacts with found footage and archival materials through performance and labor-intensive processes of painting, lifting, and manipulating 16mm/35mm film emulsion using scotch tape, razor blades, and nail polish. By engaging with tactile and sensory dimensions of queer histories, Takemoto conjures up immersive fantasies involving butch surgeons, femme fish filleting, and homoerotic breadmaking. Their films honor queer Asian Americans who lived, loved, and labored together during the prewar era and beyond.
Known for
Night Swing
Director
HK Uprising
Director
Warning Shot
Director
Sworded Love
Director
Wayward Emulsions
Director
For Jina
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After Bed
Director
May 35
Director
Lion in the Wind
Director
On the Line
Director
Filmography
- 2026Swing Swish SwayDirector
- 2024For JinaDirector
- 2023Lion in the WindDirector
- 2023After BedDirector
- 2021Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung)Director
- 2021HK UprisingDirector
- 2019Sworded LoveDirector
- 2019May 35Director
- 2018On the LineDirector
- 2018Wayward EmulsionsDirector
- 2017Semiotics of SabDirector
- 2016Warning ShotDirector
- 2014Sex, Politics and Sticky RiceDirector
- 2011Looking for JiroDirector
- —Sab Shimono: Acting “As If”Director
- —Lift Little TokyoDirector
- —Night SwingDirector
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