Takahiko Iimura Movies

"It's a mixture of [dead] animals, pieces of [broken] furniture, industrial waste, kids playing. I didn't have in mind any of the kind of historical...

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...

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

8mm short by Kenji Onishi and Tohru Mabuchi.

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...

Cameras once again observing each other.

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...

Filmed turning the camera upside down, and without looking through the viewfinder, this experimental short features fragmented scenes of people, a...

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

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,...

"This Is A Camera Which Shoots This" and "As I See You You See Me" are both set up facing two cameras and monitors and the performer walks between...

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...

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

Cameras observing each other.

White Calligraphy is an abstract short made by scratching characters from 'Kojiki', an early Japanese text, into the frames of 16mm black leader.

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

In 1973 the Kino Arsenal – then in its Welserstraße location in Berlin-Schöneberg – showed a programme of videos by the...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series