Takahiko Iimura Movies

  • 1978
    Four Shadows

    Four Shadows

    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...

    Four Shadows
  • 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

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1976
    Observer / Observed / Observer

    Observer / Observed / Observer

    Observer / Observed / Observer

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    Cameras once again observing each other.

    Observer / Observed / Observer
  • 1972
    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here

    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...

    Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
  • 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

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    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2004
    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved

    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved

    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...

    Ma: The Stones Haved Moved
  • 1995
    This Is a Camera Which Shoots This

    This Is a Camera Which Shoots This

    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...

    This Is a Camera Which Shoots This
  • 1963
    Desade

    Desade

    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,...

    Desade
  • 1964
    Dead Movie

    Dead Movie

    Dead Movie

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    Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

    Dead Movie
  • 1972
    Timed 1, 2, 3

    Timed 1, 2, 3

    Timed 1, 2, 3

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    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...

    Timed 1, 2, 3
  • 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
  • 2003
    I am (Not) Seen

    I am (Not) Seen

    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...

    I am (Not) Seen
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1984
    Air's Rock

    Air's Rock

    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...

    Air's Rock
  • 1989
    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji

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    "The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.

    The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji