tashi tamate weiss is a star being with earth lineages from the deep mountains of northeastern japan where the celestial waters touch the earth, and jewish yiddish speakers of romania and lithuania. she is here to offer her medicine toward the restoration of sacred interdependence with all of life. tashi’s life work is interdisciplinary and hybrid, weaving together film, writing, taiko drumming, energy work, ritual, performance, and music to create worlds that can hold the immensity of the transitions we move through on the path of liberation.
tashi produced Sidelots, an award-winning love story of Black land reclamation told in ritual between Detroit, Alabama and Kenya, incubated by the Detroit Narrative Agency and screened at the Harlem International, New Orleans, and Blackstar Film Festivals. she directed Love Me to the Bones, a lyrical short film that recovers reverence for the feminine and the unseen in post-nuclear disaster Fukushima, picked up by feminist film studio Mala Forever. a recipient of the 2021 San Francisco Arts Commission Grant, tashi created “Groundwater/Chikasui” and “a hoop where a fire can grow”, site-specific multimedia ritual performances planting seeds of sacred reciprocity between Ramaytush Ohlone land and the San Francisco Japantown community. tashi is currently working on her first biomythographical (a term by Audre Lorde) novel, The Direction is Center.
