Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 2012
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer
Film Workshop In SANGENJAYA - Summer02012HD
8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.
- 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.
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1981
Talking in New York
Talking in New York01981HD
A kind of first person cinema where the filmmaker is the cameraman as well as the actor. Acting like a total stranger in the city who does not speak...
- 1963
Onan
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“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires....
- 1977
MA (Intervals)
MA (Intervals)01977HD
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...
- 1962
6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)
6x6 (Oukan Densentsu)01962HD
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:...
- 1966
Honey Moon
Honey Moon01966HD
A touching portrait of his partner Akiko and the days following their wedding, Iimura's conceptual rigour loosens in favour of intimacy in Honey...
- 1985
John Cage Performs James Joyce
John Cage Performs James Joyce01985HD
A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens...
- 1975
Observer / Observed
Observer / Observed01975HD
Cameras observing each other.
- 1987
I Love You
I Love You01987HD
“Double Portrait” and “I Love You” are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In...
- 1967
White Calligraphy
White Calligraphy01967HD
White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.
- 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...
- 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...
- 1966
Why Don't You Sneeze
Why Don't You Sneeze01966HD
labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.
- 1969
Flowers
Flowers01969HD
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...
- 1965
Rose Color Dance
Rose Color Dance01965HD
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...
- 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...
- 1970
Film Strips II
Film Strips II01970HD
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,...
- 1962
Junk
Junk01962HD
"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...