Takahiko Iimura Filmes

  • 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
  • 1981
    Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)

    Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)

    Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)

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    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...

    Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)
  • 1970
    Buddha Again

    Buddha Again

    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...

    Buddha Again
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1969
    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    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...

    Filmmakers
  • 1971
    Shutter

    Shutter

    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...

    Shutter
  • 1991
    Concept tape 3 (Performance)

    Concept tape 3 (Performance)

    Concept tape 3 (Performance)

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    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)
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1971
    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

    Man and Woman

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    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...

    Man and Woman
  • 1966
    I Saw the Shadow

    I Saw the Shadow

    I Saw the Shadow

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    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...

    I Saw the Shadow
  • 1962
    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)

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    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:...

    6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)
  • 1965
    Rose Color Dance

    Rose Color Dance

    Rose Color Dance

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    A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the...

    Rose Color Dance
  • 2008
    A Rock In The Light

    A Rock In The Light

    A Rock In The Light

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    In “A Rock In The Light”, I requested the music of Haruyuki Suzuki, a contemporary composer. This music is unified with the image, which...

    A Rock In The Light
  • 1985
    Moments At The Rock

    Moments At The Rock

    Moments At The Rock

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    “Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations...

    Moments At The Rock
  • 1975
    24 Frames per Second

    24 Frames per Second

    24 Frames per Second

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    This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.

    24 Frames per Second
  • 1989
    New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness

    New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness

    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.

    New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness
  • 1969
    Flowers

    Flowers

    Flowers

    01969HD

    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...

    Flowers
  • 1964
    My Documentary

    My Documentary

    My Documentary

    01964HD

    Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

    My Documentary
  • 1973
    1 To 60 Seconds

    1 To 60 Seconds

    1 To 60 Seconds

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    "In 1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extraordinary thing: he abstracts time from any concrete associations, seems to put it on the screen and there you...

    1 To 60 Seconds
  • 1984
    New York Hot Springs

    New York Hot Springs

    New York Hot Springs

    01984HD

    ‘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...

    New York Hot Springs