Takahiko Iimura Movies

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...

"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...

In “A Rock In The Light”, I requested the music of Haruyuki Suzuki, a contemporary composer. This music is unified with the image, which...

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...

“Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

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...

"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...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

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

The 1981 performance Circle & Square by Takahiko Iimura, New York-based Japanese film and video pioneer, evolved from the artist's interest in...

Short film featuring Takahiko and Akiko Iimura

UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

"Of the new foreign work I saw, (at the Avantgarde Film Festival in London) that of Taka Iimura interested me most – His film + & -, using...

An image synthesized version of Mardi Gras festival in New Orleans, in which many colorized images flow slowly left to right as the parade of the...

‘New York Scenes’ (1967) is sketches of certain scenes and portraits in New York including, ‘Linda with a lens’, ‘Fire...

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