Direction: Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Tatsumi Hijikata · Kazuo Ohno

Synopsis 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 as a dance document but also as a Cine-Dance, a...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis ‘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, Iimura drew the Japanese characters for the Kojiki, “the oldest...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura · Phill Niblock

Cast S.E.M. Ensemble · Petr Kotík

Direction Takahiko Iimura · Arata Isozaki

Synopsis A Japanese concept of space/time, called "Ma" (or the interconnectiveness of space and time), is realized through the zen garden of Ryoan-Ji.

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Mario Montez · Donna Kerness · Linda · Akiko Iimura

Synopsis 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 intercut and edited making into a film. The sound is...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis 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 New York, which was a center of the former, and...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

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

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis 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 invited to experience the garden as an embodiment of ma,...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

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

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis 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 New York, which was a center of the former, and...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis 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) is sketches of certain scenes and portraits in New York...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis “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 I U E O NN Six Features is a video...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis The act of making love seen through close-up and magnifying lens.

Direction Takahiko Iimura

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

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis Educational film discovered in a bin became raw material for On Eye Rape, where a hole-puncher was applied to individual frames in a bold statement against censorship. “The original images are ‘hidden’ by large areas of light appearing so violently...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis 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 under) the other symbolizing in words at the same time,...

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Synopsis 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 close rapidly. At the same time the “blind” effects of...