Kimi Takesue

Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker/artist whose films have screened widely at festivals and museums internationally including Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam, Cinéma du Réel, CPH:DOX, SXSW, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art and have aired/streamed on PBS, IFC, the Sundance Channel and the Criterion Channel. Takesue is the recipient of Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellowships, as well as the "Chicken & Egg Award" from Chicken and Egg Pictures honoring women filmmakers who have made a significant contribution to the documentary field. Her recent documentary Onlookers premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival where it was awarded an Honorable Mention for Breakout Features and enjoyed a successful theatrical run at Metrograph in New York City. Metrograph At Home further celebrated Takesue's work via streaming with a "Kimi Takesue Showcase" which included her three acclaimed feature documentaries: Onlookers, 95 and 6 To Go and Where Are You Taking Me? Onlookers was one of three documentaries highlighted by The New York Times as “The Best Documentaries of 2024, So Far.”
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Onlookers

The film "Onlookers" offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers.

Directed by Kimi Takesue

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