Takahiko Iimura Movies

  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1969
    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    01969HD

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

    Filmmakers
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    71997HD

    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1962
    Love

    Love

    Love

    81962HD

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

    Love
  • 1967
    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema

    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema

    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema

    01967HD

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

    Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    71978HD

    Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image...

    Four Shadows
  • 1963
    The Masseurs

    The Masseurs

    The Masseurs

    01963HD

    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...

    The Masseurs
  • 1972
    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    61972HD

    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...

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
  • 1966
    Honey Moon

    Honey Moon

    Honey Moon

    01966HD

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

    Honey Moon
  • 1975
    Observer / Observed

    Observer / Observed

    Observer / Observed

    81975HD

    Cameras observing each other.

    Observer / Observed
  • 1991
    Concept tape 3 (Performance)

    Concept tape 3 (Performance)

    Concept tape 3 (Performance)

    01991HD

    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...

    Concept tape 3 (Performance)
  • 2013
    KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

    KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

    KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–

    02013HD

    Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

    KIKAIDE MIRUKOTO = Eye Machine / To See by Chance –The Pioneers of Japanese Video Arts–
  • 1963
    Desade

    Desade

    Desade

    01963HD

    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,...

    Desade
  • 1970
    Ukiyo Ukare

    Ukiyo Ukare

    Ukiyo Ukare

    01970HD

    UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others

    Ukiyo Ukare
  • 2011
    Associations of Silverpencils

    Associations of Silverpencils

    Associations of Silverpencils

    02011HD

    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...

    Associations of Silverpencils
  • 1971
    Shutter

    Shutter

    Shutter

    01971HD

    '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...

    Shutter
  • 1971
    Time Tunnel

    Time Tunnel

    Time Tunnel

    01971HD

    An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

    Time Tunnel
  • 1981
    Circle & Square

    Circle & Square

    Circle & Square

    01981HD

    The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in...

    Circle & Square
  • 1989
    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji

    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji

    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji

    91989HD

    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"...

    MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji
  • 1962
    Junk

    Junk

    Junk

    01962HD

    "It's a mixture of [dead] animals, pieces of [broken] furniture, industrial waste, kids playing. I didn't have in mind any of the kind of historical...

    Junk