Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1989
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness
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A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.
- 1984
New York Hot Springs
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‘New York Hot Springs’ (1984) is scenes of steam coming out of many streets of New York, a typical scene in winter, in repeated cycles of...
- 1967
Shelter 9999
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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.
- 1989
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji
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"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.
- 1991
Fluxus Replayed
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- 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...
- 1977
MA (Intervals)
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In the general classification, this was a complete abstract film and a kind of experimental movie as well, only black film, which blocks light, and...
- 1971
Shutter
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'What I am concerned with in this film is not only the flicker effect, but also the coming and going of an eye-like shape on screen which was created...
- 1970
Buddha Again
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Originally filmed in 8mm a little stone-made Buddha in a temple of Katmandu, the film strip in ten seconds was projected as a loop, and then the...
- 1969
Filmmakers
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Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...
- 1962
On Eye Rape
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"The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin. It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained. I,...
- 1970
In The River
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Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a...
- 2012
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer
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8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.
- 1971
Time Tunnel
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An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.
- 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...
- 1967
White Calligraphy
White Calligraphy01967HD
White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.
- 1970
Blinking
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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...
- 1969
Face
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The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and...
- 1970
A Chair
A Chair01970HD
One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...