Cinematography: Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Tatsumi Hijikata · Kazuo Ohno

Plot Anma (The Masseur) 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...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot ‘Writing the Kojiki, the oldest story in Japan. An abstract film written in Japanese letters in each frame. A trial of Zen film.’ – T.I. ‘To make this abstract film,...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura · Phill Niblock

Cast S.E.M. Ensemble · Petr Kotík

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Mario Montez · Donna Kerness · Linda · Akiko Iimura

Plot 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 the real, are...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot A double portrait of Taka and Ako (Akiko) who are shooting each other with their albums.

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot 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...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot Short film for the “A Commercial for Myself” programme.

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot When I came to the USA in the mid 1960s, it was the high point of the Hippie movement and the black riots. I lived in the East village in...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot A collection of films in various styles which concern with New York as the subject compiled by the request of the Donnel Library in New York. ‘New York Scenes’ (1967)...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Takahiko Iimura

Plot “Combining the comical and the absurd, I created six funny faces to animate the images of Japanese vowels: A I U E O NN in “Image”, “Letter”, and “Voice”. A...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot Short film for the “A Commercial for Myself” programme.

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot Man and Woman shows full body shots of a naked man and woman shot from above without movement: stills. They are shown alone as well as together one over (or...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot 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...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Plot One of Takahiko Iimura’s (and modern art’s) earliest works in conceptual video, A Chair entirely consists of a steady (and usually ghosted) image of a chair to the accompaniment of...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Stan Brakhage · Takahiko Iimura · Jonas Mekas · Jack Smith

Plot 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...