Yuka Murakami
Yuka Murakami is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. Her films have screened at festivals in the U.S. and internationally, and her writing has appeared in the Millennium Film Journal, Metrograph, and Screen Slate. She took part in Reverse Shot’s Emerging Critics Workshop during the 2025 First Look Festival.
The often solitary experience of analog filmmaking, as exemplified by the landscape films of James Benning, Babette Mangolte, and Peter Hutton, necessitates a free-form style that takes into account the scope and contingencies of nature itself.