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Yuka Murakami is a New York-based filmmaker and writer. Her work uses close observation to explore systems of performance across history, linguistics, labor, and ritual. 

She is a graduate from the California Institute of the Arts’s MFA in Film Directing, where she was awarded the Alison Doerner Fund for Women Pioneers in Filmmaking and the Lillian Disney Critical Reader Scholarship. She was a recipient of an Emmy Award as a producer on the documentary Masters of Modern Design in 2020. She currently works at Metrograph in the programming department.

yuka.murakami@icloud.com     
In Other Words
2026
Short film

Awards:
NYSCA/Wave Farm: MAAF for Artists 2026


A short documentary-essay film on translation and its relationship to performance. An investigation of how a live interpreter assumes the role akin to that of an actor, or a marionette, on stage. Through vérité footage and a choreographed puppet sequence, the film explores the grace of self-displacement needed to channel another's voice, asking where the performance ends and the translation begins.