Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1970
Ukiyo Ukare
Ukiyo Ukare01970HD
UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others
- 1969
Flowers
Flowers01969HD
While I was staying in New York in the 1960s during the rise of the hippie movement, I filmed performances of body painting by the artist, Kusama...
- 1971
Man and Woman
Man and Woman01971HD
MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...
- 1966
I Saw the Shadow
I Saw the Shadow01966HD
A precedent to Iimura's video work where he becomes his own subject, I Saw the Shadow sees Iimura follow his own shadow in and out of vision as he...
- 1987
Double Portrait
Double Portrait01987HD
"Double Portrait" and "I Love You" are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In "Double Portrait" they...
- 1967
Shelter 9999
Shelter 999901967HD
In the context of the Cold War, use of the word “shelter” was common. However, it surprised Iimura when he started to live in New York in...
- 1966
Why Don't You Sneeze
Why Don't You Sneeze01966HD
labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.
- 1964
My Documentary
My Documentary01964HD
Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.
- 1973
1 To 60 Seconds
1 To 60 Seconds01973HD
"In 1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extraordinary thing: he abstracts time from any concrete associations, seems to put it on the screen and there you...
- 1970
Blinking
Blinking01970HD
One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...
- 1970
Kiri (The Fog)
Kiri (The Fog)01970HD
"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the...
- 1963
Sakasama (Upside Down)
Sakasama (Upside Down)01963HD
Filmed turning the camera upside down, and without looking through the viewfinder, this experimental short features fragmented scenes of people, a...
- 1985
John Cage Performs James Joyce
John Cage Performs James Joyce01985HD
A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens...
- 1989
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji01989HD
The early sixteenth-century Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoan-ji, in Kyoto, is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or "dry landscape"...
- 2004
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved
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An animation film in which the outline of the image of a stone garden was traced on computer. As the result while the camera-crews moved in...
- 1964
Dead Movie
Dead Movie11964HD
Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.
- 1963
Desade
Desade01963HD
From the collector of Marquis de Sade in the early 1960s, still a 'dark age ' of erotic picture, even his novels were forbidden to publish in Tokyo,...
- 1977
Visual Logic (and Illogic)
Visual Logic (and Illogic)01977HD
Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.
- 1995
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This01995HD
"This Is a Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between...
- 1972
Timed 1, 2, 3
Timed 1, 2, 301972HD
Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there...