Akimi Ota
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Akimi Ota
@akimiota.bsky.social
Filmmaker. PhD in visual anthropology (University of Manchester). Directed "Kanarta: Alive in Dreams" (2020), "Soil of Mirror" (2024). Forthcoming: "La Vie Cinématique" (film), "Liquid Amazonia" (monograph).
Our long journey steps into the next phase: my WIP "The Cinematic Life" is selected for Editing Lab in Docs By the Sea 2025, which will be held in Bali in September. Editing the rough cut with maximum energy right now.

docsbythesea.org/selected-pro...
July 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
So they needed to falsify Bob Vylan's word as if he said "Death to Israelis", because they know that it's not easy to condemn the chant "Death to the IDF", given what IDF is actually doing and the complicity of political & media elites. They know themselves that they are just racist.
July 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Another screening event is coming on 15th June, this time in Tokyo.

The talk after the screening will revolve around decolonial thought, magic realism, and basically how to resist to the world imposed to us at the moment through practices and ideas represented in Kanarta: Alive in Dreams.
June 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"Kanarta: Alive in Dreams" screenings and talks in Fukuoka (Yame & Kita-Kyushu). 5th & 7th June.

I'm very impressed by the fact that my film increasingly attracts new audience as it's screened around the world.
June 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
"Kanarta: Alive in Dreams" is gonna be screened in two locations in Fukuoka, Japan. Bilingual subtitles in JP / EN. I'll be there for a talk.

2025.6.5 [Thu]
OPEN 19:00-/START 19:30-
¥3,300

2025.6.7 [Sat]
OPEN 14:00-/START 14:30-
¥3,300+1drink order

Apply from here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
May 13, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Celebrating New Year in Salvador.
January 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Back in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. From this year I have been spending time here in order to explore possession cult, corporality and forms of relationship with natural elements through Candomblé, capoeira and much more. I aim to create artworks using video, photography, sound and text.
December 7, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Yesterday in Tokyo I organised screenings of the trenchant documentary shot in Palestine “5 broken cameras”. I invited photojournalist Rei Shiva and artist KOM_I for a talk session. I believe it’s one of the most important films to screen all over the world now, even though it’s made 13 years ago.
March 25, 2024 at 4:38 AM