Takahiko Iimura Movies

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

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 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:...

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

Iimura analyzed some footage he had made in Katmandu of a man taking a bath in a sacred river. A meditational experience is, thus, presented in a...

"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...

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...

Short work.

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.

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

When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in New York,...

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...

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...

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

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...

‘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...

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...

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...