Takahiko Iimura Movies

A boy and a girl in a small room, having a fight, making love and suddenly . . . a black humor on a young couple.—Takahiko Iimura, Paper Film:...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

"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...

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

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

Film installation by Japanese experimental filmmaker Takahiko Iimura.

"The original film was rescued from a Tokyo trash bin. It is an American sexual education film in which plant and animal sex are explained. I,...

An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.

labeled in the CCJ as "Why Not Sneeze?", this film has been described as blatantly inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s ANEMIC CINEMA.

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

'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...

‘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 film for the "A Commercial for Myself" programme.

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...

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