{"podcast":{"title":"The Projection Booth","slug":"the-projection-booth-407558","podcast_index_feed_id":407558,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5513239/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d20d0731450590f8bce760b347a9ee76.jpg","author":"The Projection Booth","episode_count":1000,"summary":"The Projection Booth features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis while regularly attracting special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems. The podcast has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. Visit http://www.projectionboothpodcast.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T18:18:26.593435+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558"},"episode":{"title":"Special Report: Kimi Takesue: Crossings and Encounters","slug":"special-report-kimi-takesue-crossing-and-encounters","published_at":"2026-05-18T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558/special-report-kimi-takesue-crossing-and-encounters","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558","url":"https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2026/05/special-report-kimi-takesue-crossing.html","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/https://op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72049309/epx714_kimi_takesue.mp3","summary":"Mike talks with filmmaker Kimi Takesue, whose work — spanning documentary, fiction, and experimental forms — is now collected on the Criterion Channel. Takesue grew up shuttling between Honolulu and Massachusetts, and that cross-cultural, biracial upbringing informs every frame she has made, from early shorts rooted in identity politics to acclaimed features documenting cross-cultural encounters in Uganda, Laos, and Hawaiʻi. Her films, including Where Are You Taking Me?, 95 and 6 to Go, and Onlookers, examine those encounters through an observational lens, tracing the power dynamics and unspoken tensions that emerge when tourists and locals share the same unequal terrain. Takesue discusses her practice of traveling without research or agenda, letting one thing unfold into the next, and how a devastating failed fiction project directly led to the making of Where Are You Taking Me? She also talks about the rhythm and formalism of Onlookers, the tension between aestheticizing beauty and critiquing the tourist gaze, the influences she only fully embraced later in her career, and her current work-in-progress following tour guides at Cambodian atrocity sites. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth","meta_description":"Mike talks with filmmaker Kimi Takesue, whose work — spanning documentary, fiction, and experimental forms — is now collected on the Criterion Channel. Ta…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2423,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-projection-booth-407558/episodes/special-report-kimi-takesue-crossing-and-encounters/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558/special-report-kimi-takesue-crossing-and-encounters.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}