Takahiko Iimura Movies

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

"On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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...

A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...

'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...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

Experimental film involving letters.

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...

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...

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...

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

A compilation tape of performances including John Cage Performs James Joyce, Arakawa, and Iimura's first AIUEONN and As I See You You See Me shot...

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

In "I Am A Viewer, You Are A Viewer" the performer plays the double role of the performer and the audience simultaneously, talking to his own shadow....

A touching portrait of his partner Akiko and the days following their wedding, Iimura's conceptual rigour loosens in favour of intimacy in Honey...

‘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...

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York,...

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...

By using simple systems of counting and measuring in film, Iimura has drawn attention to the complexities of our time perception – memory,...