Takahiko Iimura Movies

"Double Portrait" and "I Love You" are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In "Double Portrait" they...

"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...

A voice performance by John Cage who "reads", "vocalizes" and "whispers" in three different manners his artificial language taken from "Finnegens...

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

In the context of the Cold War, use of the word “shelter” was common. However, it surprised Iimura when he started to live in New York in...

Cameras observing each other.

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

"These two reels (A-1~4, B-1~4) of MODELS I think are unusually important works. You are certainly one of the filmmakers to so explicitly direct your...

A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.

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:...

Models, Reel 2 (B-1~4) consists of four works and is dealt with, different from Reel 1, symbol/words, and the logic in film. First "Counting 1 to 100...

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...

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the...

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...

"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...

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

In "I Am A Viewer, You Are A Viewer" the performer plays the double role of the performer and the audience simultaneously, talking to his own shadow....

By using simple systems of counting and measuring in film, Iimura has drawn attention to the complexities of our time perception – memory,...