Profile

Asako Ujita (1997, Osaka, Japan) is an artist/filmmaker based in London. In her practice, she is interested in exploring history and working with the archival - from news, found footage, to informal recordings such as dairies and letters.

Beneath the layers of calm and dream-like tone of her films, these narratives of the past weave into current socio-political issues such as history, ecology, gender, and identity. She considers this stitching of time a reconstruction of myth, evoking psychological experiences of collective memory, trauma and imagination in the present. 

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Her work has been screened and awarded internationally, including the Grand Prix award at the 25 FPS Festival, Croatia, les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France, Beijing International Short Film Festival, China, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, UK, Regeneration at Barbican Centre 2021 London, and Speculative Future; Climate Crisis at Horniman Museum and Gardens, 2020 London. 

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​Full CV available here