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...

Anma (The Masseurs) is a representative and historical work by the creator of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata in his early period in the 1960s. The...

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...

'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...

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...

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

One of Takahiko Iimura's (and modern art's) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of...

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...

Experimental film involving letters.

Video began as a medium that inspired discovery. This art documentary traces the expressive roots of “media art” in Japan — works...

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

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...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

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

Yomiuri Independent was an annual show between 1949-1963 that exhibited all art that was submitted. Artists in the early 60s began to take advantage...

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...

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

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....

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

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