I AM THE ART NOBUO KUBOTA
Schedule
Sun, 29 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema | Toronto, ON
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At 92, Governor General’s Award–winning artist Nobuo Kubota isn’t retiring—he’s reinventing himself. His newest obsession? Performance art.I Am the Art is a bold, intimate portrait of a Japanese-Canadian trailblazer whose creativity has never stopped evolving. From early sculpture to sound poetry, avant-garde jazz, and now live performance, Kubota has spent a lifetime breaking rules and fusing East and West, silence and sound, memory and experiment.
But this is also a love story. While Kubota pushes his body and voice into uncharted territory, he is also caring for his 96-year-old wife, Lee, who lives with advanced Alzheimer’s. Rare archival footage of his work with CCMC and the Artists’ Jazz Band, along with haunting images from WWII internment camps, show how resilience and imagination shaped his life and art.
Kubota proves that art is not something you make—it’s something you live.
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