Kano U. is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California (Tongva Land).
Having grown up a Buddhist and with many cultural superstitions, Kano is drawn to the narrative structures of mythology and religious texts, where gods, deities, and supernatural phenomena are vehicles used to speak larger truths about our world. Like her films, Kano’s flash fiction stories also incorporate elements of mythology and spirituality to build an imagined world where the truth isn’t literal and stated, but rather revealed and learned through guided introspection.
With a politicized thoughtfulness, Kano’s undergraduate thesis explored the influence of Third Cinema on Asian American film and video in the 1970s and 1980s, with a particular emphasis on Asian diasporic documentary films. Her thesis was published in both English and Spanish in the bilingual film journal, Revista Cine Documental. Kano has also been a Staff Writer for Asian Cinevision’s Cinevue, one of the first Asian American media arts journals.
Their visual and written voice is a mixture of play and contemplation, where childlike wonder is a perspective used to have spectators embody curiosity; because to the child who is newly born, the world feels vast and unknown, and at the same time, so ready to be reimagined.
Kano is currently an MFA student in Documentary Directing/Production at UCLA.
Please don’t use any of my pieces for the purpose of training artificial intelligence.