Movies

'What I am concerned with in this film is not only the flicker effect, but also the coming and going of an eye-like shape on screen which was created...

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

In "I Am A Viewer, You Are A Viewer" the performer plays the double role of the performer and the audience simultaneously, talking to his own shadow....

"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...

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"...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

In the context of the Cold War, use of the word “shelter” was common. However, it surprised Iimura when he started to live in New York in...

The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

"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...

Takahiko Iimura's Models Series

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Short work.

This film, and in particular the function of sound within it will vary freely from moment to moment, viewer to viewer.

"10 minutes of the act of creation itself run through close up and magnifying lenses. " -T.I.

Camera, Monitor, Frame is the first installment of Takahiko Iimura's "Video Semiotics Triptych" (the other two works are Observer/Observed, made in...

"Shot on 8mm on a mountain in Japan, the abrasive winds that drift the fog in Iimura's Kiri are so fierce we almost believe it to have grazed the...

"In 1 to 60 Seconds Iimura does an extraordinary thing: he abstracts time from any concrete associations, seems to put it on the screen and there you...

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...

Experimental short by Keiji Aiuchi.