Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1978
Four Shadows
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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...
- 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 Cinema01967HD
A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1971
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...
- 1976
Observer / Observed / Observer
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Cameras once again observing each other.
- 1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
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"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...
- 1989
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji01989HD
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"...
- 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.
- 1975
24 Frames per Second
24 Frames per Second01975HD
This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.
- 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...
- 1995
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This
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"This Is a Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between...
- 1963
Desade
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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,...
- 1964
Dead Movie
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Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.
- 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...
- 1966
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...
- 2003
I am (Not) Seen
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This video deals with the perception of seeing including the words as I see you, I am seen, and I am not seen. These words are superimposed over the...
- 1973
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...
- 1971
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...
- 1984
Air's Rock
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A portmanteau of two films about Uluru (then known as Ayres Rock). "A huge isolated rock in the midst of desert in Australia: Ayers Rock. I produced...
- 1989
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji01989HD
"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.