Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 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...
- 2002
Un Ange Passe
Un Ange Passe02002HD
Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.
- 1989
Scared to Death
Scared to Death01989HD
An image synthesized version of Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans, in which many colorized images flow slowly left to right as the parade of 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...
- 1964
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput
A Dance Party in the Kingdom of Lilliput21964HD
A super-real comedy with Sho Kazakura. The film is divided in to a number of very short scenes or chapters, each with a title "A,B,C" at random. we...
- 1971
The Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean01971HD
Shot on 8mm on the 12-day boat journey between Yokohama and San Francisco, Iimura's The Pacific Ocean consumes the anticipation and uncertainties of...
- 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...
- 1984
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing)
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing)01984HD
A mind-twisting video, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the...
- 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...
- 1973
Plus and Minus
Plus and Minus01973HD
"Of the new foreign work I saw, (at the Avantgarde Film Festival in London) that of Taka Iimura interested me most – His film + & -, using...
- 2008
A Rock In The Light
A Rock In The Light02008HD
In “A Rock In The Light”, I requested the music of Haruyuki Suzuki, a contemporary composer. This music is unified with the image, which...
- 2011
Associations of Silverpencils
Associations of Silverpencils02011HD
This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and...
- 1978
Sync Sound
Sync Sound01978HD
Using the system of academy leader: 10 to 1, the film replaces the number to white space with bip sound (clear leader) gradually until it reaches to...
- 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.
- 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.
- 1976
Camera, Monitor, Frame
Camera, Monitor, Frame01976HD
Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in...
- 1981
Circle & Square
Circle & Square01981HD
The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in...
- 2012
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer02012HD
8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.
- 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,...
- 1991
Concept Tapes 2
Concept Tapes 201991HD