NEWS
September-December 2024
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Curators Abby Chen and Naz Cuguoglu select Looking for Jiro for the inaugural American Pavilion exhibition at the Gwangju Biennale entitled “Rhythmic Vibrations” presented at May 18 Memorial Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea (September 7-December 1, 2024). Future venues will include the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Matsu Biennial in the Matsu Islands.
September 2024
Grand Lake Theatre, Oakland
Cinemama screens After Bed for Reel Queer Flix: An Evening of Bay Area LGBTQ+ Short Films to celebrate Oakland Pride (September 5, 2024).
September 2024
Gray Area Grand Theater, San Francisco
For Jina makes its debut at CROSSROADS 2024 presented at Gray Area Grand Theater in the Mission District of San Francisco (September 1, 2024).
July 2024
Mexico City
Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film and Video screens After Bed in Mexico City (July 5, 2024).
June 2024
Montalvo Arts Center’s Carriage House Theater, Saratoga
“Reckonings in Film” features two Lucas Artists Program Fellows, TT Takemoto and Genevieve Quick, who will screen films followed by a Q&A with curator Abby Chen. TT Takemoto will present: After Bed (2023), Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) (2021), and Lion in the Wind (2023). Genevieve Quick will present: Rockette Odyssey (2020), Megaphone (2019), and Hello World (2022) finale with a sing along at Montalvo Arts Center’s Carriage House Theater in Saratoga (June 27, 2024).
June 2024
Palace of Culture, Pernik, Bulgaria
Lion in the Wind is selected for “Best Short Experimental Category” by the In the Palace International Short Film Festival presented in the Palace of Culture in Pernik, Bulgaria (June 10-17, 2024).
June 2024
Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland
Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues screens Wayward Emulsions for their first program “Body as Film/Film as Body” at Shapeshifters Cinema in Oakland (June 8, 2024).
May-June 2024
Qualia Contemporary Art, Palo Alto
To mark Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, Qualia Contemporary Art includes After Bed in the exhibition “All Together Now: Celebrating AAPI Voices in Contemporary Art” in association with The Asian American Foundation and East West Bank (May 18-June 28, 2024).
May 2024
Rome, Italy
Unarchive Found Footage Fest screens After Bed in Rome, Italy (May 28, 2024).
May 2024
Other Cinema, San Francisco
Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema screens Lion in the Wind for the “Avant to Live” program at Artists Television Access (May 25, 2024).
May 2024
Roxie Theater, San Francisco
CAAMfest 20224 screens Lion in the Wind for the “Animontage” program at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco (May 18, 2024).
May 2024
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Takemoto co-hosts the “(Dis)Comfort and Belonging” May Reading Group for Into View: New Voices, New Stories exhibition at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco (May 16, 2024).
May 2024
500 Capp Street, San Francisco
“Spotlight on TT Takemoto” featuring 9 films that explore hidden dimensions of same sex intimacy & trauma in Asian and Asian American history. In these works, Takemoto conjures up queer historical fantasies by manipulating found footage and engaging with tactile dimensions of the archive. Part of a day-long series of Canyon programs, presented in concert with 500 Capp Street and Berkeley Art Center’s Spring Invitational collaborative fundraiser in San Francisco (May 4, 2024).
April-May 2024
The Baltics Tour
Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) joins Queer City Cinema’s Qalesidoscope: Queer Film and Performance On Tour of “The Baltics” traveling to Riga, Latvia; Gothenburg, Sweden; Tallinn, Estonia; Turku, Finland; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Copenhagen, Denmark (April 4-May 9, 2024).
April 2024
Ghent, Belgium
After Bed is awarded jury prize for Best Experimental Film at QueerCine International Film Festival in Ghent, Belgium (April 29, 2024).
April 2024
Barbican Centre, London
Queer East Festival 2024 screens Looking for Jiro for their “Glitch! Rewind. Then we…” program at the Barbican Centre in London (April 24, 2024). Curators Hsieh I-Hsuan and Chen Huei-Yin note: “A Glitch concerns us, surprises us. It makes us pause, rewind and (re)view the experience again, again and again. This programme consists of works that rediscover queer images/bodies/temporalities, as an attempt to recall and reassemble our projections of desire.”
April 2024
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago
Onion City Experimental Film Festival screens Lion in the Wind for the “Light Bath” program at Chicago Filmmakers in Chicago (April 5, 2024).
March 2024
Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor Film Festival screens After Bed for “Films in Competition 2” at Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor, Michigan (March 27, 2024).
March 2024
Hyperallergic
Looking for Jiro, Warning Shot, and On the Line are featured in “Reimagine Peace, No Matter How Long the Path” online exhibition curated by Machiko Harada as part of Hyperallergic‘s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators (March 6, 2024).
March 2024
Canyon Cinema, San Francisco
Takemoto is selected to join Print Generations, a new Canyon Cinema commissioning project that will support the production of four new 16mm films by this cohort of Bay Area filmmakers (announced March 5, 2024).
February 2024
Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco
Fine Arts Gallery displays On the Line with a new multichannel work Untitled (Spectres and Shadows) for the Reflecting on Ruth Asawa and the Garden of Remembrance exhibition (February 24 – April 6, 2024).
February 2024
Hyperallergic
Machiko Harada discusses Takemoto’s Gentleman’s Gaman and Queer Camp Trilogy films (Looking for Jiro, Warning Shot, On the Line) in her essay “Japanese Diasporic Artists Take On Intergenerational Trauma” for Hyperallergic as part of Harada’s Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators (February 22, 2024).
February 2024
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Takemoto presents Looking for Jiro, Warning Shot, and On the Line and participates on a roundtable discussion for the “Both Legacy and Memorial: Japanese American Incarceration in the American West” Symposium (February 16, 2024).
February 2024
Cinema Galeries, Brussels, Belgium
After Bed screens at the Brussels Independent Film Festival for the “Coyote + Short” Program (February 8, 2024).
January 2024
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Asian Art Museum displays On the Line for Into View: New Voices, New Stories/ Speculative Fabulations exhibition of recently acquired work by fourteen contemporary artists (January 19-October 17, 2024). Exhibition curator Naz Cuguoglu moderated the Opening Celebration’s Artist Panel discussion and received high praise in Ko Lyn Cheang’s San Francisco Chronicle review (January 20, 2024).
January 2024
4 Star Theater, San Francisco
SF Cinematheque screens Looking for Jiro for “I Hear a New World: Deconstructing the Musical” as part of 4 Star Theater’s Get Down, Get Down: A Celebration of Dance Films series (January 17, 2024).
December 2023
Other Cinema, San Francisco
Other Cinema screens Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) for Avant to Live (December 16, 2023).
December 2023
Loophole, Berlin, Germany
After Bed screens for Grrl Haus Cinema’s “Best of 2023,” short films and video art from women, trans, and non-binary artists with a focus on low-budget and DIY productions (December 11, 2023).
December 2023
Videodrome 2, Marseille, France
Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) returns to Marseille for Memoire des Sexualites du Cinema at Videodrome 2 (December 5, 2023).
November 2023
Houston Cinema Arts Festival, Houston
Lion in the Wind makes its festival debut at Houston Cinema Arts Festival in the “Eiffel Towers and Hoover Dams: New Experimental Films” program curated by Michael Sicinski (November 19, 2023).
November 2023
San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego
San Diego Asian Film Festival screens After Bed for their “ArchiteXXXual” shorts program (November 8, 2023).
October-November 2023
CROSSROADS online
SF Cinematheque offers a “distillation” of this year’s festival via CROSSROADS 2023 Online Echo. Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) is included in Program 1 (October 26-November 12, 2023).
October 2023
Toronto Art House Film Festival, Toronto
Toronto Art House Film Festival screens After Bed at Fox Theatre (October 19, 2023).
October 2023
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Lion in the Wind screens for a program of contemporary Bay Area works on film and video from the Canyon Cinema catalog, curated and hosted by executive director Brett Kashmere. Local filmmakers featured in the program include Janis Crystal Lipzin, Emily Chau, Toney Merritt, TT Takemoto, and Nathaniel Dorsky, among others. This program is part of YBCA’s BAN9 Film Series curated by Gina Basso (October 14, 2023).
October 2023
WNDX Festival of Moving Image, Winnipeg
After Bed screens at WNDX Festival of Moving Image in Winnipeg (October 7, 2023)
September 2023
Edge on the Square, SF Chinatown
Takemoto joins Sierra Katow, Vincent Pan, Weston Teruya and Miko Lee for a panel discussion on critical issues that impact Asian American communities. Organized by Edge on the Square’s 2nd annual contemporary arts festival “Under the Same Sun: Reimagining the Edges of Chinatown” (September 30, 2023).
September 2023
de Young Museum, San Francisco
After Bed is selected for The de Young Open 2023 exhibition with opening day screening in the Koret Auditorium (September 30, 2023).
September 2023
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest, London
Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest brings After Bed to London for their “Unleashed Reverie: Fluidity in Motion” program (September 23, 2023).
September 2023
Kunstmuseum Celle, Germany
Kunstmuseum Celle invites Takemoto to screen four films (On the Line, Wayward Emulsions, Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) and Looking for Jiro) and to be in conversation with Dr. Kien Nghi Ha on the topic of “Queerness and Asian Diaspora in the USA and Germany” (September 22, 2023).
September 2023
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago
Chicago Underground Film Festival presents After Bed for their “Elevated Experiences” shorts program (September 16-17, 2023).
September 2023
CROSSROADS Film Festival, San Francisco
Takemoto presents Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) for CROSSROADS Film Festival at Gray Area in San Francisco (September 9, 2023).
September 2023
Cinemama, Oakland
Grand Lake Theatre shows Looking for Jiro as part of Cinemama’s Reel Queer Flix program to kick off Oakland Pride (September 6, 2023).
June 2023
California Film Institute, San Rafael
Takemoto presents Sex, Politics & Sticky Rice and Semiotics of Sab for CAFILM’s Bay Area Queer Shorts program at Smith Rafael Film Center as part of Marin Pride (June 11, 2023).
June 2023
Canyon Cinema, San Francisco
Canyon Cinema welcomes Takemoto as a new artist member adding 13 digital videos to their collection.
June 2023
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
After Bed was selected for the Bernice Bing: Open Call exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (June 16 – December 11, 2023). This exhibition was curated in conjunction with the Into View: Bernice Bing exhibition to honor Bing’s legacy.
June 2023
Festival of (In)appropriation, Paris
On the Line returns to Paris with the third screening of the Festival of (In)Appropriation #12 at Le Grand Action in Paris (June 1, 2023)
April 2023
Treize Gallery, Paris
Takemoto presents nine films selected by MUFF Festival curators at Treize Gallery in Paris (April 28, 2023).
April 2023
Paris College of Art
Takemoto shows On the Line, After Bed, and Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) to the Film Art program at Paris College of Art (April 27, 2023).
April 2023
Marseille Underground Film Festival, France
After three years of planning and waiting, Takemoto presents an eight film retrospective program at Marseille Underground Film Festival with French subtitles (April 22, 2023).
April 2023
Other Cinema, San Francisco
On the Line screens alongside several handmade films for Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema “Optronica 2” program at Artists’ Television Access in San Francisco (April 8, 2023).
March 2023
Outfest Fusion, Los Angeles
After Bed screens with QTIBIPOC shorts at Outfest Fusion in Los Angeles (March 25, 2023).
March 2023
Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose
Takemoto joins Masako Miki and Astria Suparak for “New Strategies of Display: Asian American Art, Technology & Storytelling,” a conversation moderated by Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander at the ICA San Jose (March 16, 2023).
March 2023
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Looking for Jiro travels to Salem, Massachusetts for the second iteration of the After Hope: Videos of Resistance exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum (March 11-December 31, 2023)
February 2023
Day of Remembrance
Takemoto presents On the Line for Yonsei Memory Projects’ Day of Remembrance (February 17, 2023).
January/February 2023
Qaleidoscope, Canada Tour
Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) screens in Winnipeg during Qaleidoscope’s seven city tour of Canada (January-February 2023).
January 2023
Senses of Cinema World Poll
Brian Darr selects After Bed as one of his “Top Shorts” for the Senses of Cinema World Poll of 2022.
October 2022
Festival of (In)Appropriation, Los Angeles and Berkeley
On the Line travels up the West Coast with the Festival of (In)appropriation #12 from Los Angeles Film Forum to Pacific Film Archive (October 2 and 19, 2022).
September 2022
Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany
Looking for Jiro and Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) screened during the “Gender, Humor, Solidarity!” two-day gathering of Asian Diasporic and Asian American artists organized by Practice Institute at Asian Art Museum and Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, held at ruruHaus, Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany (September 1-2, 2022).
July 2022
Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
Looking for Jiro, featured at the Play and Loop IV exhibition at Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong, was selected as a top pick by Art Asia Pacific (July 19-August 27, 2022).
July 2022
Montalvo Art Center, Saratoga, CA
On the Line and Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) projected on the Montalvo Villa as part of the Marcus Festival to mark the opening of the Claiming Space outdoor exhibition at Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga (July 15, 2022).
April/May 2022
Qaleidoscope, UK Tour
Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) joins Queer City Cinema’s Qalesidoscope UK Tour of Glasgow, Hawick, Galway, Dublin, and London (April-May 2022).
March 2022
Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
May 35 and HK Uprising were featured in Catharine Clark Gallery’s media room in conjunction with Wanxin Zhang: Witness exhibition (March 5-April 16, 2022)
January 2022
WMA, Hong Kong
Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) traveled to Hong Kong for the second installation of WOMEN: From Her to Here exhibition at WMA, Hong Kong (January 21-May 31, 2022).
February 2021
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Looking for Jiro featured among 54 works in the After Hope: Videos of Resistance exhibition at the Asian Art Museum (February 19 2021- May 2, 2022).
February 2021
Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco
Ever Wanting (for Margaret Chung) on view at the WOMEN: From Her to Here exhibition at the Chinese Culture Center (February 19- December 18, 2021)
September 2020
OXY Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
Gentleman’s Gaman presented at We Live! Memories of Resistance exhibition at OXY Arts Gallery in Los Angeles (September 14-November 29, 2020) in conjunction with the In Plain Sight coalition project. Photo credit: Ian Byers Gamber.
July 2020
In Plain Sight
Takemoto joins a coalition of 80 artists organized by Cassils and rafa esparza to skytype messages over 80 detention facilities across the U.S. on July 4th weekend. Their message “Not Forgotten” appeared over the federal prison on Terminal Island in San Pedro, California (July 3, 2020)
February 2019
Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery, Washington DC
Queer Feminist of Color Art on view at the What is Feminist Art? exhibition at Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery organized by the Archives of American Art in Washington DC (November 26, 2019-December 31, 2021).