Movies: Takahiko Iimura
- 1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here (1972)
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"On John's 31st birthday, Yoko held an art exhibit, "This Is Not Here", at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, N.Y.. The show was taped and aired on U.S. TV on May 11, 1972 as "John and Yoko in Syracuse, New York."...
- 1967
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema (1967)
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A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura, and shown at the American Cinematheque from January 19 to 25, 1967....
- 2004
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved (2004)
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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 film-making, the stone, the drawn line moved in animation....
- 1997
Birth of a Nation (1997)
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....
- 2011
Associations of Silverpencils (2011)
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This is a film about a medium approaching extinction, an 8mm documentary film about a vanishing 8mm cinema. Blending two genres, the science film and the personal film, and benefiting from the participation of multiple generations of cineastes, it is...
- 1962
Love (1962)
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"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I....
- 1978
Four Shadows (1978)
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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 sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sect...
- 1989
MA: Space/Time in the Garden of Ryoan-ji (1989)
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The early sixteenth-century Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoan-ji, in Kyoto, is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or "dry landscape" style... In this film, the viewer is invited to experience the garden as an embodiment of ma, a Japa...
- 1963
The Masseurs (1963)
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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 film is realized not only as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a term made by Iimura, that is m...
- 1965
Rose Color Dance (1965)
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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 originator of Butoh. All of the male dancers are dressed up with evening suits and move gracefully, yet an in...
- 1966
Why Don't You Sneeze (1966)
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labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA....
- 1969
Filmmakers (1969)
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Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait, Iimura attempts to copy the styles and traits of each artist (Vanderbeek's constantly moving camera...
- 1966
I Saw the Shadow (1966)
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A precedent to Iimura's video work where he becomes his own subject, I Saw the Shadow sees Iimura follow his own shadow in and out of vision as he roams around streets, steps and fields. As the film progresses, it becomes increasingly unclear whether...
- 1989
The Making of MA in Ryoan-ji (1989)
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"The Making..." showed not only the process of film-making, but also the creation of "MA" as a work....
- 1987
Double Portrait (1987)
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"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 are never together, but one by one in three points of view, front, side, and back, assigned to the wo...
- 1972
Timed 1, 2, 3 (1972)
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Visually, each section of the film is composed of 10-second spans of clear and dark leader, arranged in a progressive fashion so that at first there is more and more light and less darkness, then vice versa....
- 1964
My Documentary (1964)
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Short film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme....
- 1969
Ukiyo Ukare (1969)
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UKIYO UKARE present details from the shunga, pornographic wood-block prints of Harunobu, Utamaro, and others...
- 1984
New York Hot Springs (1984)
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‘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 short shots. Though the scenes are shot at the same locations, the timings are differed slightly in every cycle....
- 1970
Blinking (1970)
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One of the earliest minimalist video with flicker effects was produced in Tokyo in early 1970s. A flickering video with eyes, which super-impose the positive over the negative, open and close rapidly. At the same time the "blind" effects of video fas...