Takahiko Iimura Movies

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...

Shot on 8mm on the 12-day boat journey between Yokohama and San Francisco, Iimura's The Pacific Ocean consumes the anticipation and uncertainties of...

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...

'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...

A mind-twisting video, meditating on the experience of watching film/video, and of seeing and being seen. Prodded by a succession of riddles, the...

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...

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...

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

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...

"The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin. It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained. I,...

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

First projected onto Jiro Takamatsu's naked back at the legendary Sogetsu Art Center for the performance Screen Play, Colors is an experiment in...

labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.

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...

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...

‘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...

In 1973 the Kino Arsenal – then in its Welserstraße location in Berlin-Schöneberg – showed a programme of videos by the...

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"...

Sky and ground which was cut off momentarily / A camera wanders seeking its own shadow / The images which explore the limit / of solitude in New York...

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,...