Film

This experimental film essay explores the poetics of identity through an oblique portrait of gay Japanese American actor Sab Shimono, whose work on stage and screen spans more than five decades. The grammatology of his career attests to conflicting lexicons of race, representation, and selfhood.

Warning Shot 2016, 9:50 minutes single-channel digital video with sound One death. Three versions of the crime. James Wakasa was shot by military police at Topaz WWII incarceration camp. Was it justifiable homicide, an accidental fatality, or second-degree murder? This film uses the "Rashomon effect" to juxtapose conflicting accounts of this gay chef's untimely

Sex, Politics and Sticky Rice 2014, 8:20 minutes single-channel digital video with sound; Protests, potlucks, and three-ways are just the "tip of the rice bowl" for five out Asian American lesbians recounting their adventures in sex, love, and queer activism in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1980s.

Looking for Jiro 2011, 5:45 minutes single-channel digital video with sound Looking for Jiro is a queer meditation on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Jiro Onuma worked in the prison mess hall and liked muscular men. How did this dandy gay bachelor survive imprisonment? This queer musical mash-up video features