Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1989
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness01989HD
A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.
- 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...
- 1970
Buddha Again
Buddha Again01970HD
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...
- 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,...
- 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...
- 1991
Fluxus Replayed
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- 1971
Shutter
Shutter01971HD
'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...
- 1969
Filmmakers
Filmmakers01969HD
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...
- 1970
In The River
In The River01970HD
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1971
Time Tunnel
Time Tunnel01971HD
An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1963
The Masseurs
The Masseurs01963HD
Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...
- 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...
- 1962
6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)
6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)01962HD
A boy and a girl in a small room, having a fight, making love and suddenly . . . a black humor on a young couple.—Takahiko Iimura, Paper Film:...
- 1981
Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)
Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)01981HD
Consisting of four parts: Between the Frames; Seeing Nothing; The Privilege to See; I Am A Viewer / You Are A Viewer. The film demonstrates and...