Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1985
Moments At The Rock
Moments At The Rock01985HD
“Moments At The Rock,” shot with an amateur video camera, was made as a free style improvisational film. The camera got strange halations...
- 1967
White Calligraphy
White Calligraphy01967HD
White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.
- 1965
Rose Color Dance
Rose Color Dance01965HD
A document of Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh dance with Kazuo Ohno as the guest dancer shot in Hijikata's early period when he was emerging as the...
- 1971
Man and Woman
Man and Woman01971HD
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...
- 1970
Buddha Again
Buddha Again01970HD
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...
- 1971
Time Tunnel
Time Tunnel01971HD
An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.
- 1972
Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,4
Models: A-3: Time Length 1,2,3,401972HD
"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...
- 1977
Visual Logic (and Illogic)
Visual Logic (and Illogic)01977HD
Demonstrates the visual logic (and illogic) of sign combining with limited movements of camera for panning and zooming.
- 1987
I Love You
I Love You01987HD
“Double Portrait” and “I Love You” are a paired piece with Akiko Iimura. Both Iimuras play individually as well as a unit. In...
- 1970
In The River
In The River01970HD
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...
- 1972
Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame
Models: B-3: To See the Frame, Not to See the Frame01972HD
Takahiko Iimura's Models Series
- 1971
The Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean01971HD
Shot on 8mm on the 12-day boat journey between Yokohama and San Francisco, Iimura's The Pacific Ocean consumes the anticipation and uncertainties of...
- 1963
Onan
Onan101963HD
“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires....
- 1964
My Documentary
My Documentary01964HD
Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.
- 1963
Desade
Desade01963HD
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,...
- 1977
MA (Intervals)
MA (Intervals)01977HD
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...
- 1984
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing)
Shadowman (The Structure of Seeing and Hearing)01984HD
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...
- 1984
New York Hot Springs
New York Hot Springs01984HD
‘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...
- 1972
Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing
Models: B-4: Seeing, Not Seeing01972HD
Short work.
- 1985
Air's Rock
Air's Rock01985HD
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...