Takahiko Iimura Movies
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 1967
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema
Japanese Erotica: Five Films on Love and Sex from the Japanese Underground of the Experimental Cinema01967HD
A program of five films on love and sex from the Japanese underground of the experimental cinema, assembled by avant-garde cineaste Takahiko Iimura,...
- 1978
Four Shadows
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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...
- 1965
Rose Color Dance
Rose Color Dance01965HD
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...
- 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....
- 1972
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here
Yoko Ono: This Is Not Here61972HD
"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...
- 1967
Shelter 9999
Shelter 999901967HD
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...
- 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.
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 1989
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness
New York Day and Night: A Journey through Light and Darkness01989HD
A journey through light and darkness reflected on the city of New York.
- 1971
Time Tunnel
Time Tunnel01971HD
An attempt at time travel in a very conceptual sense.
- 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.
- 1977
MA (Intervals)
MA (Intervals)01977HD
In the general classification, this was a complete abstract film and a kind of experimental movie as well, only black film, which blocks light, and...
- 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...
- 1972
Timed 1, 2, 3
Timed 1, 2, 301972HD
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...
- 1995
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This
This Is a Camera Which Shoots This01995HD
"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...
- 1981
Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)
Talking Picture (The Structure of Film Viewing)01981HD
Consisting of four parts: Between the Frames; Seeing Nothing; The Privilege to See; I Am A Viewer / You Are A Viewer. The film demonstrates and...
- 2004
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved
Ma: The Stones Haved Moved02004HD
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...
- 1971
Man and Woman
Man and Woman01971HD
MAN AND WOMAN shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement. They are shown alone as well as together, one over (or...
- 1973
1 To 60 Seconds
1 To 60 Seconds01973HD
"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...