Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 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...
- 1970
A Chair
A Chair01970HD
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...
- 1969
Flowers
Flowers01969HD
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...
- 2004
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved
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An animation film in which the outline of the image of a stone garden was traced on computer. As the result while the camera-crews moved in...
- 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...
- 1989
Scared to Death
Scared to Death01989HD
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...
- 1970
Film Strips II
Film Strips II01970HD
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,...
- 1972
Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 3
Models: B-2: A Line 1, 2, 301972HD
Takahiko Iimura's Models Series
- 1971
Time Tunnel
Time Tunnel01971HD
An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.
- 1966
Why Don't You Sneeze
Why Don't You Sneeze01966HD
labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.
- 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...
- 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
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.
- 2003
I am (Not) Seen
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This video deals with the perception of seeing including the words as I see you, I am seen, and I am not seen. These words are superimposed over the...
- 1989
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji01989HD
"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work.
- 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
- 1963
Onan
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“ONAN is a work about desire (masturbation) which has no object but itself. The appearance of the large egg objectifies the man's desires....
- 1975
24 Frames per Second
24 Frames per Second01975HD
This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.
- 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.
- 1964
My Documentary
My Documentary01964HD
Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.