TINA TAKEMOTO, LOOKING FOR JIRO, 2011

PERFORMANCE
Written By Megan Christiansen

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 drag king performance, U.S. propaganda footage, muscle building, and homoerotic bread making.” - Tina Takemoto

Megan Christiansen
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