Takahiko Iimura Movies

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Cameras observing each other.

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...

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

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...

Using the system of academy leader: 10 to 1, the film replaces the number to white space with bip sound (clear leader) gradually until it reaches to...

The film reproduces the historic performances by some of the iconic artists of Fluxus from the 60s: Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, George...

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,...

'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...

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

"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...

White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.

"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...

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

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...

A touching portrait of his partner Akiko and the days following their wedding, Iimura's conceptual rigour loosens in favour of intimacy in Honey...

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

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