Where Are You Taking Me? (2010) (With Director Q&A)
This film will be preceded with an in-person introduction and post-screening Q&A session with the filmmaker, Kimi Takesue, moderated by Asst. Professor Dr. Marc Gloede
Director: Kimi Takesue
Runtime: 72 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English, Luganda, Acholi
Rating: PG
“Fascinating…Some scenes appear as artfully composed as a painting (and some reminiscent of famed painters). But these are found moments, and they have movement and character as well as poetry…the film is an unusual, visually rich visit to the nation.” —David DeWitt, THE NEW YORK TIMES
Synopsis
A high-society wedding, a movie set, a beauty salon, a women’s weightlifting competition: these are a few of the many places in Uganda visited in Kimi Takesue’s lyrical feature documentary, Where Are You Taking Me? Employing a vivid observational style, Takesue travels through the vibrant streets of Kampala to the rural quiet of Hope North, a refuge and school for survivors of civil war. The film offers multi-faceted portraits of Ugandans and their country, challenging notions of the exotic. Commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, this meditative documentary examines the dynamics of the cross-cultural gaze and the relationship between filmmaker and subject.
About the Filmmaker
Kimi Takesue is an award-winning filmmaker recognized for her work across documentary, narrative, and experimental genres. Her films have screened widely at international festivals and museums including the Sundance Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, CPH:DOX, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). She has received prestigious honours, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship. Takesue was the recipient of the “Breakthrough Award” and Fellowship from Chicken and Egg Pictures honouring women filmmakers who have made a significant contribution to the documentary field. Her recent film Onlookers was named one of the best documentaries of 2024 by The New York Times and had a theatrical release at Metrograph in New York City.
About the Moderator
Marc Gloede is a curator, critic and film scholar. His work focuses on the relationship between images, technology, space, the body, and the dynamics between art, architecture and film. He was senior curator of Art Film, Art Basel’s film programme (2008-14) and has curated exhibitions including STILL/MOVING/STILL — The History of Slide Projection in the Arts (Knokke / Belgium). He authored the book Farbige Lichträume / Colored Space of Light (2014), was co-editor of Synästhesie-Effekte (2011), and was recently published in The Impossibility of Mapping [Urban Asia] (2020). He received his PhD at the Free University of Berlin and since 2017 is Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the MA in Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices at NTU ADM.
This screening is part of the programme The Cross-Cultural Gaze: Films of Kimi Takesue and Look/See: The Female Gaze in Cinema. For more screenings, please click here.
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